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March 4, 2024 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

#PrivacyCamp24: Event summary

On January 24, 2024, we brought together policymakers, activists, human rights defenders, and academics from all over Europe for Privacy Camp 2024. We came together to explore the theme ‘Revealing, Rethinking, and Changing Systems’.

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October 1, 2021 · Blogs | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation

DSA should tackle the root cause of polarisation, not just its symptoms

Yesterday, 30 September 2021, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) approved its Opinion on the proposed Digital Services Act (DSA). European Digital Rights (EDRi) and its 45 member organisations had previously called on JURI members to reject the compromise proposed by the Rapporteur for Opinion.

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June 10, 2013 · Blogs

PRISM explains the wider lobbying issues surrounding EU data protection reform

The European Commission’s Communication on Cloud Computing (pdf) forecasts a spend of 45 billion Euro on such services in the EU in 2020. The stakes are therefore huge for the countries and regions that can show themselves to be trustworthy for the processing of both personal and business data. With no comprehensive federal privacy legislation […]

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May 16, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

A guide to EDRi at RightsCon 2018

This year, three members of our Brussels office are attending RghtsCon in Toronto: Executive Director Joe McNamee, Senior Policy Adviser Maryant Fernández Pérez and Policy Intern Gemma Shields. The conference days are full of panels, meetings, informal get-togethers and fun activities. Here is our guide to the sessions moderated or attended by EDRi staff. Wednesday […]

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April 20, 2016 · Blogs

CETA to get priority ahead of EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

CETA will undermine EU Charter of Fundamental Rights In February 2016, the European Commission and Canadian government published the final draft text of the EU – Canada trade agreement (CETA), prior to its approval or rejection by the Council, European Parliament and, possibly, national parliaments. The Court of Justice of the EU in October 2015 […]

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May 28, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Freedom of expression online

EU Member States agree on monitoring & filtering of internet uploads

On 25 May, the European Council agreed to a negotiating position on the draft copyright directive. This  will allow the presidency of the Council to start negotiations with the European Parliament on mass monitoring and filtering of internet uploads and a chaotic new “ancillary copyright” measure that will make it harder to link to and quote news sources.

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February 26, 2014 · Blogs

How the Commission is out-manoeuvring the European Parliament to undermine net neutrality

The European Commission wants to bring an end to the open and competitive internet in Europe, for reasons that are not completely clear. Neither multiple consultations that showed the dangers of the approach, nor internal advice about the illegality of the proposals nor the needs of European citizens and businesses have been able to hold […]

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July 13, 2011

Perspectives of Internet blocking in UK following US model

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schöne Aussichten für britische Netzsperren nach amerikanischem Vorbild | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Schoene_Aussichten_fuer_britische_Netzperren_nach_amerikanischem_Vorbild?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] During his speech at the Intellect Consumer Electronics conference on 5 July 2011, UK culture minister Ed Vaizey announced that a movement in the States for a voluntary filtering by ISPs would probably bring up changes in UK […]

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February 26, 2014 · Blogs

Linking content does not infringe copyright says ECJ

On 21 February 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that a website could not be found to have infringed copyright for merely linking to content hosted elsewhere. The advice was given for the Svea hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal, Sweden), in a case involving local journalists and aggregation Swedish company Retriever Sverige, a […]

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October 7, 2009

Reding: EU policy for information society for the next years

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Reding: EU-Strategie für die Informationsgeesllschaft in den nächsten Jahren | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1536] The EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, participated last week at a breakfast event organised by the European Digital Media Association (EdiMA) and had a speech that highlighted the main EU key policy areas […]

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July 3, 2013 · Blogs

The Washington Statement – In support of data protection

Privacy advocates from North America and Europe met last week in Washington, DC to participate in the Computers, Freedom & Privacy (CFP) conference 2013 and to discuss transatlantic cooperation on privacy and data protection issues. The debates focused on the NSA leaks, the European data protection reform and the upcoming negotiations on the EU-US free […]

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March 12, 2008

German constitutional challenge on Data Retention

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The complaint challenging the German data retention law in front of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has become the biggest constitutional case in German history with the submission of more than 34000 signatures backing up the action. The Working Group on Data Retention has also prepared […]

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