January 27, 2023

Psychosocial Circles Now Open!

Team CommUNITY is happy to announce the Spring enrollment of three psychosocial “circles” - a series of weekly virtual private gatherings, led by mental health professionals, that provide digital rights defenders with the opportunity to process experiences and emotions, while learning adaptive coping mechanisms, and connecting with others facing similar challenges.

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June 13, 2018 · On the ground

12 days of digital rights in Brussels. Was it Christmas?

This article is a short story about my participation in the Brussels exchange programme.

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September 13, 2023 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Data protection standards | Platform regulation

Scroll more, sleep less. A Black Mirror-inspired truck in Warsaw advertises a disturbing social network… that doesn’t exist

Panoptykon’s campaign is being launched after the DSA has become fully effective with regard to VLOPs on 25 August. To comply with the new regulation, cybergiants must, among other things, introduce changes concerning their additive algorithms which they use to personalise users’ feeds. They must now explain how those algorithms work and offer at least one recommender system not based on tracking users’ personal data.

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March 6, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Bits of Freedom launches campaign on DSA user rights

EDRi member in the Netherlands Bits of Freedom has launched a campaign to bring attention to user rights addressed by the European Union's new digital law, the Digital Services Act. On the brand new website, that engages civil society, you can find guidelines on how to enforce your own platform rights.

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January 27, 2023

Workshop: Digital participation and digital rights in the European public space: a focus on youth.

This session brings together perspectives on citizens' digital participation, with a specific focus on young people and digital rights in the European public deliberation forum.  

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September 13, 2022

BEUC conference: To empower, not to weaken: Rethinking consumer protection in the digital world

Join the event on 27 September 2022 in Brussels to discuss how we can rethink consumer protection in the digital age.

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March 8, 2023 · Blogs | Open letters | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

Open Letter: The AI video surveillance measures in the Olympics Games 2024 law violate human rights

In an open letter, EDRi, ECNL, La Quadrature du Net, Amnesty International France and 34 civil society organisations call on the French Parliament to reject Article 7 of the proposed law on the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games.

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February 26, 2020 · EDRi-gram

EDRi-gram 18.4, 26 February 2020

"The requirement of a notification seems to be out of the question for those advocating for "efficiency" of cross-border criminal investigations, even if that means abandoning the most basic procedural safeguards"

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March 9, 2023

EU DisinfoLab 2024 Annual Conference – open call, sumbit your ideas!

After the successful #Disinfo2023 in Krakow, the 2024 Eu DisinfoLab conference is set to take place in Riga, Latvia, on 9-10 October 2024.

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January 31, 2023

Panel: how can the EU fight (partisan) disinformation and hate speech and protect media freedom and human rights?

In the last years, the relationship between the media and trust in democratic institutions has received increasingly attention. In two roundtables the panellists will discuss legal instruments, and recommendations in the context of media freedom and human rights on digital platforms.

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December 7, 2022

MozFest House

MozFest House is a local extension of MozFest, the premiere gathering for activists, artists, technologists and educators in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world.

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 16 February 2022

In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we put EDRi's affiliate ECNL in the spotlight to take a peek at the fights they are fighting to advance our freedoms online and offline. We're also looking at a comparison between the Western Balkans countries' digital advancement and what the digitalisation of all aspects of life mean citizens' well-being. We're also exploring the Belgian authority's decision that IAB Europe’s consent pop-ups are incompatible with the GDPR, which has been confirmed by 27 data protection authorities from 20 EU countries involved in the cross-border investigation.

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