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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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July 17, 2024 · Blogs | Press mentions

Will the far right threaten Europe’s digital future?

To move away from a technosolutionist approach, it is important to envision a future where technology serves humanity, democracy, and the planet by asking the hard question of how technology enables harmful power dynamics in our society.

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June 18, 2008

UK MPs report: A Surveillance Society?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A report of the Home Affairs Committee shows concerns that Britain might be in danger of becoming a Big Brother type of state and calls on the UK ministers to take the necessary measures to provide safeguards and minimize the amount of the citizen’s information collected and […]

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July 27, 2016 · Blogs

The lobby-tomy 8: “Anti-fraud” – another magic word

Prevention of fraud is a compelling argument for less privacy protection. Insurance companies, banks, and lenders often use it to get access to data.

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July 2, 2008

The US-EU agreement on personal data exchange by law enforcement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As stated by the New York Times on 26 June 2008, the United States and the European Union are close to conclude an agreement allowing the exchange of personal data of their citizens, including credit card information, travel history and Internet browsing information in order to be […]

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February 27, 2004

UK government welcomes report about data retention

The UK Government has given a guarded welcome to a review of its data retention powers. The review came from the Newton Committee, which was set up by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 that created these powers. The Committee, even though empowered to revoke some powers, supports the principle of data retention for […]

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August 5, 2015 · Blogs

Launch of the EU Internet Forum – behind closed doors and without civil society

The European Commission has confirmed to EDRi that it is preparing to partner with US online companies in order to plan the arbitrary monitoring and censorship of European citizens and, contrary to previous assurances, will exclude civil society from these discussions. More disturbingly, this is happening at the same time as the US is preparing […]

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December 15, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Privacy and data protection

2021: Looking back at digital rights in the year of resilience

We started 2021, hoping to leave the tremendously challenging year of 2020 behind. The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on our societies, causing unprecedented harm to people and economies. If 2020 was the year of the pandemic shock, 2021 was the year of resilience. We had to learn to live in a constant uncertainty of what it would take to keep defending human rights: Could we work and walk down the streets without being constantly surveilled? Would efforts to tackle disinformation distort legitimate content, or would they bring down Big Tech instead? Will 2022 be 2021 2.0? 

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February 11, 2009

EU Commissioner: No to an Internet freedom law and Yes to net neutrality

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The intentions of some European Parliament members (MEPs) to introduce in EU a similar law with the Global Online Freedom Act proposed by the US Congress in January 2007, was considered unnecessary and a too “hard law” by Commissioner Viviane Reding. The US bill is meant to […]

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December 14, 2011

Brief overview of the leaked EU Data Protection Regulation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein Überblick über die geleakte EU-Datenschutzverordnung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Ein_Ueberblick_ueber_die_geleakte_EU-Datenschutzverordnung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Last week, Europe was able to get a first glance at the “General Data Protection Regulation” thanks to a leak by Statewatch. It is due to be officially published on 25 January 2012 and will repeal the outdated Data Protection […]

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