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May 5, 2022 · Blogs | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Europol’s ever-increasing mandate: European Parliament failed to stand up for fundamental rights

Today, 4 May, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved the revision of Europol’s mandate and the Schengen Information System. This supports a massive, unchecked expansion of Europol’s powers, posing a threat to people’s rights through over-policing, mass surveillance and discrimination.

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May 25, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online

Belgium wants to ban Signal – a harbinger of European policy to come

Last week, the Belgian government launched a proposal that would ban Signal. What's going on?

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June 8, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Statement on 4 Years of GDPR

When the GDPR became applicable on 25 May 2018, it was perceived as a watershed moment. Comments were somewhere between the EU getting serious about privacy and the internet breaking down at midnight. The past four years have shown that a law alone does not change business models that are based on the abuse of personal data and a culture within the privacy profession that is often focusing on covering up non-compliance. After a first moment of shock, large part of the data industry has learned to live with GDPR without actually changing practices. This is mainly done by simply ignoring users’ rights and getting away with it.

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July 6, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Challenging the use of GPS tags to monitor asylum seekers in the UK

The latest rollout of GPS tags to monitor migrants is another step in creating a 'hostile environment' for asylum seekers in the UK. 

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September 7, 2022 · Blogs | Highlights | Position papers | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

New EU law amplifies risks of state over-reach and mass surveillance

The EDRi network published its position paper on the proposed Regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm II”). The European Commission’s Prüm II proposal fails to put in place vital safeguards designed to protect all of us from state overreach and authoritarian mass surveillance practices. In the worst case scenario, we may no longer be able to walk freely on our streets as the new law would treat large parts of the population as a criminal before proven otherwise.

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September 14, 2022 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

European Parliament calls loud and clear for a ban on biometric mass surveillance in AI Act

After our timely advocacy actions with over 70 organisations, the amendments to the IMCO - LIBE Committee Report for the Artificial Intelligence Act clearly state the need for a ban on Remote Biometric Identification. In fact, 24 individual MEPs representing 158 MEPs, demand a complete ban on biometric mass surveillance practices. Now we need to keep up the pressure at European and national levels to ensure that when the AI Act is officially passed, likely in 2023 or 2024, it bans biometric mass surveillance.

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September 28, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and confidentiality

Privacy Defenders: Enabling young people to defend their online privacy

EDRi member Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) in cooperation with Croatian NGOs NUM and Politiscope will soon finish the implementation of the project Privacy Defenders, supported by the Active Citizen Fund (EEA and Norway). The project aims to build the capacities of young people from a small local community to advocate for and defend their online privacy.

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September 28, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Does Google accuse you of child abuse? Impossible! Right?

The legislator in Europe is working on a proposal that could force companies to scan all messages we exchange for child sexual abuse material. The goal is noble but it can very easily go wrong. And if things go wrong, you might suddenly be accused of sexually abusing children.

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December 7, 2022

Platform Governance Research Network Conference 2023: call for abstracts

The Platform Governance Research Network brings together researchers interested in ‘platform governance’, broadly defined. From online labor markets and locally-tethered service delivery platforms, to social networks and cloud providers, we are interested in highlighting cutting-edge conceptual and empirical work that engages with the politics and policy of the 21st century ‘platformized’ internet.

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December 14, 2022 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Disinformation and electoral interference | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

Everyone is on Mastodon now, but why?

Millions of people and organisations are flocking to Mastodon in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. EDRi is among those who recently started using the decentralised and free social network. What does Mastodon do better, and why does it get digital rights groups all excited?

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December 14, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices

Back to the Future: Activism, the copyright Directive and lessons for the present

The Copyright Directive marked a key moment in internet history. Civil society, and EDRi in particular, have reflected on the role we played in the political debate and what would that mean for future digital policy fights. In this blogpost, we look back to assess the success of the strategies we adopted and what are the takeaways we should keep in mind when challenging current human rights threats like chat control and facial recognition.

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February 1, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

Phone unlocking vs biometric mass surveillance: what’s the difference?

Facial recognition is one of the most hotly-debated topics in the European Union’s (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act. Lawmakers are more aware than ever of the risks posed by automated surveillance systems which pervasively track our faces – as well as our bodies and movements - across time and place. This can amount to biometric mass surveillance (BMS), which undermines our anonymity and freedom, and weaponises our faces and bodies against us. The article explores the types of biometric technology and their implications.

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