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Booklet: How online ads discriminate

The risks and harms that are associated with hyper-targeted online ads have been widely documented. Yet, the same amount of attention has not been shown to the many ways in which harms and risks of online advertising are unequally distributed, and how targeted online advertising can have discriminatory effects. This is the focus of EDRi’s newly launched report.

July 16, 2025 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

Civil society files joint DSA complaint against X for targeting people with ads using their sensitive personal data

Nine civil society organisations, including EDRi, submitted a complaint against X for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) by using people’s sensitive personal data for targeted ads. Together, we are calling for Digital Services Coordinators and the European Commission to promptly investigate X, and hold it to accountable for undermining users’ fundamental rights.

Booklet: Informing the disinfo debate

Today, 20 December 2021, EDRi, Access Now and Civil Liberties Union for Europe publish a joint report as a continuation of its 2018 predecessor, Informing the “Disinformation” Debate. The main outcome of this report is a set of policy recommendations addressed to the EU co-legislators focusing on: how to effectively mitigate fundamental rights risks that result from the manipulative methods deployed by large online platforms that exploit people’s vulnerabilities and their sensitive data; and how to combat disinformation in a manner that is fully compliant with fundamental rights standards.

November 11, 2023 · Blogs | Publications | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi Annual Report 2022: Challenges, success and changes in advancing digital rights in Europe

In our Annual Report, you can learn how EDRi built strong coalitions across civil society, mobilised hundreds of people, influenced key stakeholders at the European and national levels, leading to clear impact on European technology regulation in 2022. Read more.

EDRi-gram,14 June 2023

It’s getting hot in here – and we don’t just mean the weather. By the time this EDRi-gram reaches your inbox, the EU Parliament will have voted on the AI Act and the "e-Evidence" package. This is a crucial moment for the AI Act as we push hard and keep our fingers crossed for all the wins of the committee vote to remain after the plenary. We also have serious concerns about the e-Evidence proposal posing a threat to our fundamental rights. Along with other civil society groups, doctors and journalists organisations and internet service providers, we are calling on Members of European Parliament to reject this package. In this edition you can also read about what changed in the ten years since Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance by the US government.

UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds the regime for bulk communications data to be incompatible with EU law

The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal issued a declaration in EDRi member Privacy International's challenge to the bulk communications data regime, finding UK legislation to be incompatible with EU law.

May 7, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

When technology is the problem, not the solution: Lessons from harmful consequences of techno-solutionism in digital surveillance

AI-powered surveillance systems are being deployed globally - from Israel and Russia to EU member states. These systems target marginalised communities under the guise of improving security and efficiency. To rectify these harms, we must challenge techno-solutionist narratives and rethink why and how technology is used, and center human rights.

February 7, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation

The EU Parliament takes strong stance against surveillance ads

The Platform Power campaign, alongside many civil society organisations, raised its voice for stronger laws against the business model of Big Tech online platforms and succesfully pressured law-makers to put people at the center of the debate.

July 11, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

German police raids privacy group’s premises

In the early morning of 20 June 2018, German police forces raided several locations – the headquarters of the privacy group Zwiebelfreunde, and the homes of three of its board members, as well as the association OpenLab, which is part of EDRi member Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Augsburg.

April 12, 2022 · Blogs | Highlights | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation

A new crisis response mechanism for the DSA

EDRi is one of 38 civil society organisations jointly raising our voices to the DSA negotiators to stop negotiating outside their respective mandates and respect the democratic process of the EU. We demand concrete improvements necessary for the Crisis Response Mechanism (CRM) to respect international human rights law and prevent the future abuse of those emergency powers. Add your voice now!

September 9, 2015 · Blogs

Terrorists behind the attacks in France not radicalised “online”

On 26 August, the French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve announced in an interview that “90 percent of those drifting into terrorism do it on the Internet”. It is not the first time that Cazeneuve mentioned this figure – he used the same statistics already on numerous occasions, mainly to defend measures contained in […]

March 9, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Profiling practices

The European Commission does not sufficiently understand the need for better AI law

The Dutch Senate shares the concerns Bits of Freedom has about the Artificial Intelligence Act and wrote a letter to the European Commission about the need to better protect people from harmful uses of AI such as through biometric surveillance. The Commission has given a response to this which is not exactly reassuring.

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Booklet: How online ads discriminate

Civil society files joint DSA complaint against X for targeting people with ads using their sensitive personal data

Booklet: Informing the disinfo debate

EDRi Annual Report 2022: Challenges, success and changes in advancing digital rights in Europe

EDRi-gram,14 June 2023

UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds the regime for bulk communications data to be incompatible with EU law

When technology is the problem, not the solution: Lessons from harmful consequences of techno-solutionism in digital surveillance

The EU Parliament takes strong stance against surveillance ads

German police raids privacy group’s premises

A new crisis response mechanism for the DSA

Terrorists behind the attacks in France not radicalised “online”

The European Commission does not sufficiently understand the need for better AI law