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April 10, 2019 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

UK: Online Harms Strategy must “design in” fundamental rights

After months of waiting and speculation, the United Kingdom government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has finally published its White Paper on Online Harms – now appearing as a joint publication with the Home Office. The expected duty of care proposal is present, but substantive detail on what this actually means remains […]

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October 4, 2023 · Press mentions | Privacy and data protection

Will the European Parliament walk the talk and protect journalists?

In a democratic society, where we rely on journalists to act as public watchdogs, we cannot have them worried about becoming a target of government-sanctioned spying.

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March 12, 2012 · Blogs

World Day Against Cyber-Censorship

Lire cet article en français Support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all is the message of this year’s world day against cyber-censorship. For the fourth time, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has published a report listing the worst violators of online free speech worldwide. In the following, we want to focus on […]

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December 16, 2016 · Blogs

Your privacy, security and freedom online: How to claim them back

This is the last blogpost of our series dedicated to privacy, security and freedoms. In this series, we have explained how your freedoms are under threat, and what you can do to fight back.

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October 9, 2013 · Blogs

LSE Report: File-Sharing Is Rather Beneficial To Music Industry

A new report shows again file-sharing is not detrimental to the entertainment industry sales, but quite the opposite. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has released a new policy brief asking the UK Government to take into consideration more than the industry lobbying efforts when deciding on the copyright enforcement policies such […]

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April 20, 2011

ENDitorial:CoE: A New Notion of Media. For Better or For Worse?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Europarat – Eine neue Begriffsbestimmung für Medien | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_ENDitorial_Europarat] The fourth meeting of the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of experts on new media (MC-NM) was held on 28-29 March 2011 in Strasbourg, with two main points on its agenda. The first one was a discussion on […]

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March 28, 2012

EU-US joint commitments on privacy and protection of personal data

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU – USA: Bekenntnis zu Privatsphäre und Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_EU_USA_Bekenntnis_zu_Privatsphaere_und_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328] At the 28 November 2011 EU-US Summit, President Obama and Presidents Van Rompuy and Barroso announced that the US and the EU are determined to finalise negotiations on a comprehensive EU-US data privacy and protection agreement. On 19 […]

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February 26, 2024 · Blogs | Campaigns | Open internet and inclusive technology | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

Civil society complaint raises concern that LinkedIn is violating DSA ad targeting restrictions

On 26 February, EDRi and its partners Global Witness, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte and Bits of Freedom have submitted a complaint to the European Commission regarding a potential infringement of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

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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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December 3, 2008

UK rejected data breach notification law

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Two reports were published on 24 November 2008 by UK Ministry of Justice related to the data breach notification law, the powers of the Government to share data and the Information Commissioner’s inspection powers and funding arrangements. One of the reports states that the law requiring that […]

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May 19, 2010

UK: Dismantling the database state

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB: Abbau des Datenbankstaates | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1937] The new UK government’s coalition agreement includes a list of measures in order “to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion.” This includes the following: – The scrapping of ID card scheme, the […]

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April 20, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Spyware is only the tip of the iceberg: we need to protect journalists from all forms of surveillance

The EDRi network published amendments and recommendations for the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) proposal calling for comprehensive protection for journalists, journalistic sources and human defenders against surveillance measures.

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