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October 14, 2020 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte

Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Society for Civil Rights) is a Berlin based non-profit human rights organisation that protects every individual’s right to freedom of expression, equality and safe and private communication – especially on the internet.

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November 26, 2020

Taking on Big Tech: The Fight for Digital Rights

Digital Freedom Fund’s first ever Speakers Series will run throughout November and December 2020, and will explore the key role of competition law in protecting digital rights. The series will feature preeminent speakers including Dr Niamh Dunne, Dr Miriam Buiten, and Dr Konstantinos Stylianou.

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December 9, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

“E-evidence”: Mixed results in the European Parliament

The European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) agreed on a final text for the Regulation on cross border access to data (so-called “e-evidence” proposal). Despite some improvements designed to better protect people against law enforcement overreach across jurisdictions, the Committee’s majority has unfortunately also made major compromises that will put the rights of journalists, lawyers, doctors, social workers and individuals in general at risk.

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February 10, 2021 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Digitalcourage

Digitalcourage advocates for fundamental rights, privacy and protecting personal data. It wants to shape technology and politics with a focus on human dignity. It works against a society that turns people into targets for marketing, regards them as dispensable in times of a shrinking state, and places them under suspicion as potential terrorists.

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February 4, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation Could Curtail Freedom of Expression across Europe

Counter-terrorism laws that have continued to pile up in the past years in Europe have constantly eroded the rule of law and reinforced executive powers of the state to the detriment of judicial oversight.

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February 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Open internet and inclusive technology | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Transparency

How Big Tech maintains its dominance

As Big Tech deepens its dominance into new public domains, major issues arise around fundamental rights, democracy and justice. This article reflects the conversation that took place at the 2021 EPDS Civil Society Summit which was part of #PrivacyCamp21.

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February 17, 2021 · Blogs | Campaigns | Press mentions | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Mass facial recognition is the apparatus of police states and must be regulated

Scientists have shown the inherent structural discrimination embedded in biometric systems. Facial analysis algorithms consistently judge black faces to be angrier and more threatening than white faces. We also know that biometric systems are designed with a purportedly “neutral” face and body in mind, which can exclude people with disabilities and anybody that does not conform to an arbitrary norm.

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March 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Open internet and inclusive technology | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

“Anytime and anywhere”: Vaccination, immunity certificates, and the permanent pandemic

The deployment of vaccines, and in particular any “immunity passport” or certificate linked to the vaccination, must respect human rights. EDRi's member Privacy International (PI) reveals some of the broader human rights, ethical and societal implications of vaccination "passports".

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March 24, 2021 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Campaign against surveillance: Nobody will tell you when they will follow you

The rapid growth of new technologies has been of “benefit” to secret services. However, it seems that the law has lacked behind showing its inability to reflect the new methods of surveillance used by secret services around the world. EDRi's member Panoptykon Foundation has launched a campaign in Poland to show the problem of unscrutinised powers of secret services.

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April 7, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Data protection standards | Inclusive technologies

Why the electronic green vaccination certificate creates new problems instead of solving them

The National Council in Austria passed a legal basis for the electronic immunity certificate project within two days, skipping any kind of review procedure. The digital passes are not a ticket to a normal life, vaccination is. So, special attention should be paid to maintaining the trust of people and the voluntary nature of vaccination, ensuring that people's rights to privacy and freedom of choice are respected. EDRi's member epicenter.works explains what are the concerns with the deployment of green certificates and suggests alternatives to this project.

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April 7, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Everyone wants to encourage encryption, except for one minister

The Department of Justice and Security in the Netherlands seems to be holding on to the idea that it is possible to weaken encryption "just a little". Simultaneously, the parliament and a monster alliance of organizations tells the minister over and over again: it's impossible. EDRi's member Bits of Freedom sheds some light on the on-going debate on the question.

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April 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code illegally installed on Android phones

EDRi's member noyb launched further action against Google’s AAID (Android Advertising Identifier), following similar complaints against Apple’s IDFA. The somewhat hidden ID allows Google and all apps on the phone to track a user and combine information about online and mobile behaviour. While these trackers clearly require the users’ consent (as known from “cookie banners”), Google neglects this legal requirement. noyb therefore filed a complaint against Google’s tracking code AAID.

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