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April 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Thousands Expected to Sue Facebook in Mass Action Against Privacy Breach

EDRi's member Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) will sue Facebook to recover damages for those affected by the recent breach of personal data by Facebook, a first for legal actions against tech companies in Europe. See how you can join the lawsuit if you were affected.

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May 5, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality

Companies are now allowed to scan your private communications

“Any restrictions on children’s right to freedom of expression in the digital environment, such as filters, including safety measures, should be lawful, necessary and proportionate”and any digital surveillance of children “should respect the child’s right to privacy and should not be conducted routinely, indiscriminately” nor “should it take place without the right to object to such surveillance”.

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May 25, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality

Antiterrorists in a bike shed – policy and politics of the Terrorist Content Regulation

The short story: an ill-fated law with dubious evidence base, targeting an important modern problem with poorly chosen measures, goes through an exhausting legislative process to be adopted without proper democratic scrutiny due to a procedural peculiarity. How did we manage to end up in this mess? And what does it tell us about the power of agenda setting the name of the “do something” doctrine?

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June 2, 2021 · Blogs | Information democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

The urgent need to #reclaimyourface

The rise of automated video surveillance is often touted as a quick, easy, and efficient solution to complex societal problems. In reality, roll-outs of facial recognition and other biometric mass surveillance tools constitute a systematic invasion into people’s fundamental rights to privacy and data protection. Like with uses of toxic chemicals, these toxic uses of biometric surveillance technologies need to be banned across Europe.

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June 30, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Inclusive technologies

Five reasons to claim victory on the EU Digital COVID Certificate

On 8 June 2021, the European Parliament voted on the interinstitutional compromise text on the regulation(s) on the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EU DCC, also known as the Digital Green Certificate and the European Green Pass). The proposed legislation regulates the “framework for the issuance, verification and acceptance of interoperable certificates on vaccination, testing and recovery” with aim of facilitating free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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July 14, 2021 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Who will not be blocked by Facebook? SIN wins the first court battle

The District Court in Warsaw (Appellate Division) upheld its interim measures ruling from 2019 in which it temporarily prohibited Facebook from removing fan pages, run by the Polish NGO “SIN”, on Facebook and Instagram, as well as from blocking individual posts. This means that – until the case is decided – SIN’s activists may carry out their drugs-related education on the platform without concerns that they will suddenly lose the possibility to communicate with their audience. The decision is now final. EDRi's member Panoptykon Foundation sheds some light on the case and what it means on the broader scale.

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July 14, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

How one word took an entire organization off the air

EDRi's member Bits of Freedom cannot share this blog post with their supporters on Facebook. The reason for this: the word "QAnon" appears in it. This single word was all it took to have the Facebook page of The Hmm and that of its three administrators removed.

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July 26, 2021

Summit “The future of our digital world”

Covid-19 forced us all to rethink our digital presence. What did we learn about our dependence on online platforms? Who makes the rules of our digital realm? And who is responsible for supervising them? Isn’t it time to also think about the optimal future we want to see for our digital world?

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September 8, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

Move fast and break Big Tech’s power

The surveillance-based business model of the dominant technology companies is based on extracting as much personal information and profiling as possible to target individuals, on- and offline. Over time, Big Tech corporations build a frighteningly detailed picture about billions of individuals—and that knowledge directly translates into (market) power.

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September 8, 2021 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Facebook’s dominance makes it difficult to question the truth

What we as a society understand as true is changeable, and questioning the truth can only be done with a healthy public debate. But the dominance of the platforms that facilitate our public debate makes difficult.

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September 21, 2021 · Blogs | Publications | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Inclusive technologies

If AI is the problem, is debiasing the solution?

The development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in all areas of public life have raised many concerns about the harmful consequences on society, in particular the impact on marginalised communities. EDRi's latest report "Beyond Debiasing: Regulating AI and its Inequalities", authored by Agathe Balayn and Dr. Seda Gürses,* argues that policymakers must tackle the root causes of the power imbalances caused by the pervasive use of AI systems. In promoting technical ‘debiasing’ as the main solution to AI driven structural inequality, we risk vastly underestimating the scale of the social, economic and political problems AI systems can inflict.

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October 26, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Publications | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

Digital Services Act: The EDRi guide to 2,297 amendment proposals

Various committees in the European Parliament have tabled such a large number of amendments for the Digital Services Act (DSA) that today, EDRi publishes a guide to support Members of the European Parliament in navigating those that would help create a successful, open, and rights-respecting European digital sphere.

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