July 27, 2021 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Joint open letter by civil society organizations and independent experts calling on states to implement an immediate moratorium on the sale, transfer and use of surveillance technology

In this joint open letter, 156 civil society organizations and 26 independent experts worldwide call on states to implement an immediate moratorium on the sale, transfer and use of surveillance technology.

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October 4, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi and 41 human rights organisations call on the European Parliament to reject amendments to AI and criminal law report

EDRi and 41 human rights organisations* call on the members of the European Parliament to vote against the new amendments, which enable discriminatory predictive policing and biometric mass surveillance.

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April 1, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

EDRi statement: the fundamental rights consequences of the EU media ban

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is appalled by the illegal and atrocious invasion of Ukraine by Russia’s totalitarian regime. We stand with the people of Ukraine who are forced to live in fear and flee from their homes while enduring war crimes and other large-scale human rights violations, including cyberattacks. Democratic societies that respect the rule of law should stand in solidarity with the deep suffering of people in Ukraine on many levels.

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September 28, 2020 · Blogs | Publications | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Booklet: Launch of Data Retention Revisited

Today we are pleased to launch our updated handbook: “Data Retention Revisited”. The handbook is one of the few dedicated resources created on the topic of data retention in the European Union (EU).

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September 8, 2021 · Highlights | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Intensified surveillance at EU borders: EURODAC reform needs a radical policy shift

In an open letter addressed to the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 34 organisations protecting the rights of people on the move, children and digital rights including European Digital Rights (EDRi) urge policymakers to radically change the direction of the EURODAC reform – the European Union (EU) database storing asylum seekers’ and migrants’ personal data - in order to respect fundamental rights and international law. 

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March 23, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Surveillance and data retention

EU AI Act needs clear safeguards for AI systems for military and national security purposes

EDRi affiliate ECNL presents the second set of their proposals on exemptions and exclusions of AI used for military and national security purposes from the AIA, also endorsed by European Digital Rights (EDRi), Access Now, AlgorithmWatch, ARTICLE 19, Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Panoptykon Foundation. 

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February 9, 2022 · Publications | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Chat control: 10 principles to defend children in the digital age

The automated scanning of everyone’s private communications, all of the time, constitutes a disproportionate interference with the very essence of the fundamental right to privacy. It can constitute a form of undemocratic mass surveillance, and can have severe and unjustified repercussions on many other fundamental rights and freedoms, too.

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January 13, 2022 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards

Nearly 130 public interest organisations and experts urge the United Nations to include human rights safeguards in proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty

Today, EDRi, our member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Human Rights Watch, along with nearly 130 organizations and academics working in 56 countries, regions, or globally, urged members of the Ad Hoc Committee responsible for drafting a potential United Nations Cybercrime Treaty to ensure human rights protections are embedded in the final product. The first session of the Ad Hoc Committee will begin on January 17th. 

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July 3, 2024 · Blogs | Campaigns | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

Empowering people to flourish and thrive: A vision for our digital future

Together, we can protect human rights, strengthen democracy, and reshape societal systems. Read about our commitment to empowering people to flourish and thrive, as part of our Vision for 2024 and beyond.

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October 19, 2022 · Blogs | Campaigns | Highlights | Position papers | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Position paper: A safe internet for all – Upholding private and secure communications

Despite the importance of its goals, the European Union’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) will not only fail in its aims to protect young people, but it will also even harm those it wants to protect.

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September 19, 2024 · Blogs | Campaigns | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

Making decision-making just and accountable: A vision for our digital future

Together, we can protect human rights, strengthen democracy, and reshape societal systems. Read about our commitment to making decision-making just and accountable, as part of our Vision for 2024 and beyond.

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March 1, 2022 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Civil society calls on the EU to ban predictive AI systems in policing and criminal justice in the AI Act

40+ civil society organisations, led by Fair Trials and European Digital Rights (EDRi) are calling on the EU to ban predictive systems in policing and criminal justice in the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA).

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