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December 18, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online

Online content moderation: Where does the Commission stand?

The informal discussions (trilogues) between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission are progressing on the Terrorist Content Regulation (TCO, aka “TERREG”). While users’ safeguards and rights-protective measures remain the Parliament’s red lines, the Commission presses the co-legislators to adopt what was a pre-elections public relations exercise, rather than […]

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October 5, 2011

European Digital Rights discusses cybercrime in LIBE Committee

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Computerkriminalität: EDRi referiert im Innenausschuss des EP | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_Computerkriminalitaet_EDRi_referiert_im_Innenausschuss_des_EP?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] On 4 October 2011, European Digital Rights, as well as EDRi Member Chaos Computer Club (Germany), made presentations to the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament on the new draft Directive on Attacks Against Computer Systems. The […]

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April 14, 2014 · Blogs

Is Commissioner Malmström accusing herself of violating EU law?

On the 8th of April, the European Court of Justice ruled that Data Retention Directive was incompatible with European law and declared it invalid. Recent comments by Commissioner Cecilia Malmström (whose Home Affairs portfolio covered the Directive) appear to claim that she was always aware of the incompatibility of the Directive with European law. Addressing journalists […]

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August 29, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Women on Waves: how internet companies police our speech

Increasingly, internet companies decide which content we're allowed to publish and receive.

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May 3, 2023 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 3 May 2023

This week, as the EU Parliament gets ready to vote on the AI Act, we are urging members of Parliament to protect people’s rights in this landmark legislation. We are putting forward our recommendations to lawmakers on protecting journalists from all kinds of surveillance through the European Media Freedom Act. Among other digital rights updates, read about how Irish and French Parliamentarians have become the latest voices to sound the alarm against monitoring of people’s messages in the proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation. You can still share your feedback on the draft programme for an initial decolonising process for the digital rights field in Europe.

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June 17, 2015 · Blogs

UK: Report of the investigatory powers review

A key report reviewing the UK’s legal framework governing surveillance commissioned by the Government and written by David Anderson QC, was released on 11 June 2015. The thrust of the report is a resounding call for wholesale reform of Britain’s surveillance legislation with it concluding that “This state of affairs is undemocratic, unnecessary and – […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

Polish attempt at a “transparency report”

All around the world we see public authorities requesting access to more and more individual user data, in particular from telecommunication operators and Internet service providers. Information revealed by Edward Snowden showed us how such measures can escalate into mass surveillance programmes that violate citizens’ fundamental rights. A report compiled by Panoptykon Foundation is an […]

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December 1, 2010

Data protection authorities call for a strict EU-US privacy agreement

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WP29 fordert strenges EU-US Datenschutz-Abkommen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2390] As the European Commission prepares to conclude a deal with the US on the protection of personal data exchanged in police and criminal justice cooperation matters, the European privacy watchdogs call for a strict and clear privacy agreement. Article 29 Data […]

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January 15, 2020 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

ECtHR demands explanations on Polish intelligence agency surveillance

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded the Polish government to provide an explanation on surveillance by its intelligence agencies. This is a result of complaints filed with the Strasbourg court in late 2017 and early 2018 by activists from EDRi member Panoptykon Foundation and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights as well as […]

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January 27, 2021 · Blogs | Campaigns | Highlights | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

ReclaimYourFace activates the public and civil society to ban biometric mass surveillance

The EDRi network and partners launched the first phase of the Reclaim Your Face campaign, which focuses on raising awareness and investigating and challenging abusive uses of facial recognition and other biometric tech at a local and national level, in November 2020. The coalition has achieved several wins in the two months since. However much remains to be done in the movement to reclaim our faces and ban biometric mass surveillance in Europe!

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December 15, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

A beginner’s guide to EU rules on scanning private communications: Part 1

In July 2021, the European Parliament and EU Council agreed temporary rules to allow webmail and messenger services to scan everyone’s private online communications. In 2022, the European Commission will propose a long-term version of these rules. In the first installment of this EDRi blog series on online ‘CSAM’ detection, we explore the history of the file, and why it is relevant for everyone’s digital rights.

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January 14, 2009

DHS Report shows lack of compliance with the EU-US PNR agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Privacy Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released in the second part of December 2008 a report regarding the Passenger Name Record (PNR) information from the EU-US flights. Even though the official conclusion of the authors is that DHS handling of PNR data […]

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