May 12, 2023 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Commissioner Johansson cannot be trusted with the EU’s proposed CSA Regulation

In the midst of a wide range of concerning practices and behaviours, EDRi has found it necessary to raise a formal complaint against the EU’s Home Affairs department for possible breaches of independence.

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February 1, 2024

Panel: “Misinformation and Disinformation: is democracy in crisis, and is it at aisk of failing?”

The R Street Institute is a think tank for the modern age that focuses on deep scholarship and pragmatic policy solutions.

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September 18, 2020 · Highlights | Privacy and data protection | Transparency

Vote for EDRi at the #GoodID Awards

We’ve been nominated for a #GoodID Award! 🏆 Vote for us as a Community Champion by clicking on this link: www.good-id.org/awards

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July 16, 2020 · Highlights | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

A victory for us all: European Court of Justice makes landmark ruling to invalidate the Privacy Shield

Today, 16 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield. The ruling proves a major victory for EU residents on how their personal data is processed and used by platforms like Facebook.

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September 5, 2023 · Jobs in the sector

Liberties is hiring for various positions

The Civil Liberties Union for Europe is a Berlin-based watchdog that safeguards the human rights of everyone in the European Union. Liberties works on multiple human rights issues, including free speech, data protection, the threats and opportunities of artificial intelligence for human rights, media freedom and the freedom of civil society organizations to do their work.

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February 1, 2024

The European Digital and Media Literacy Conference

The European Digital and Media Literacy Conference in Brussels puts the many faces of digital and media literacy in the European spotlight during the Belgian EU presidency.

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February 1, 2024

Workshop: “Dis/Mis-information and Young People”

The Dis/Mis-information and Young People: Developing Strategies for Critical Media Literacy is part of the Cumberland Lodge Youth and Democracy project.

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September 7, 2021

Automating Injustice

Join Fair Trials on 9 September to discuss their new report, Automating Injustice, on the use of these systems and their harmful impact. Speakers with first-hand experience of the harm these systems cause, experts on AI and automated systems in criminal justice, and leading European policymakers will be joining the event.

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September 7, 2021

FIfF Conference 2021 – Self-determination in digital spaces

Because you only see those in the light, you can't see those in the dark. Self-determination in digital spaces, Munich, 12.-14. November 2021

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December 1, 2021 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Algorithmic persecution based on massive privacy violations used to justify human rights abuses, says new report

More than 13,000 Turkish military personnel have been dismissed since July 2016 on the basis of an algorithm used by the authorities to assess the alleged “terrorist” credentials or connections of military officers and their relatives in violation of multiple human rights, says a new report published today by Statewatch.

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November 22, 2023

38th Chaos Communication Congress

The Chaos Computer Club is looking forward, once again, to provide a huge playground where you can engage in hacking, soldering, tinkering, educating, learning, partying and networking, developing shared utopias and projects, and most of all, having fun with devices.

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November 10, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Surveillance and data retention

Artificial intelligence – a tool of austerity

This week Human Rights Watch published a much-needed comment on the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation. As governments increasingly resort to AI systems to administer social security and public services more broadly, there is an ever-greater need to analyse the impact on fundamental rights and the broader public interest.

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