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December 22, 2015 · Blogs

EDRi Awards 2015

For the second time and with great solemnity, EDRi presents the first ever second edition of its annual awards. 1. The “Humpty Dumpty Award” for the most silly “statistics” The award this year goes to French Home Affairs Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. He argued that 90% of radicalisation happens online – the source was a non-representative, […]

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February 21, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Copyright reform: The Bulgarian Presidency strikes back

Article 13 is a key issue in the discussions on the “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market” that have been going on since 2016. It proposes requiring services that store content on the internet for users to “take measures, such as content recognition technologies, aimed at preventing the upload of […]

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May 13, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Disinformation and electoral interference | Freedom of expression online

COVID-Tech: COVID infodemic and the lure of censorship

In EDRi's series on COVID-19, COVIDTech, we will explore the critical principles for protecting fundamental rights while curtailing the spread of the virus, as outlined in the EDRi network's statement on the virus.

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March 21, 2022

A conversation about Interoperability and building digital public spaces

On 22 March, Open Future will launch their new report, written together with the Commons Network on “Generative Interoperability. Building online public and civic spaces”. On this occasion, they are organizing a launch event, hosted by Sophie Bloemen (Commons Network) and Alek Tarkowski (Open Future).

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May 20, 2009

Goggle's Street View contested in Europe

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europa: Widerstand gegen Googles Street View | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1401] Macedonian: [Гугл Стрит Вју оспорен во Европа | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/mk/vesti/edri/1501-gugl-strit-vju-osporen-vo-evropa] Google continues to face problems with its Street View service. The Greek data protection agency has banned Street View until it receives “additional information” from Google. The agency wishes to know […]

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November 19, 2008

The EDPS' opinion on the US-EU data exchange agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 11 November 2008, Peter Hustinx, the European Union’s Data Protection Supervisor, gave some comments to the report published on 26 June 2008 by EU-US High Level Contact Group (HLCG) on information sharing between US-EU on privacy and personal data protection. According to Hustinx, a greater sharing […]

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May 5, 2010

German court decides Google's image search does not infringe copyright

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google Image Suche verletzt laut BGH keine Urheberrechte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1907] On 29 April 2010, the German Federal Supreme Court ruled that Google’s image search did not infringe copyright. The ruling comes in a case filed by an artist because, at the introduction of her name, Google’s search engine […]

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April 20, 2011 · Blogs

European Commission's Net Neutrality report

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bericht der Europäischen Kommission zur Netzneutralität | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_Bericht_der_EU-Kommission_zur_Netzneutralitaet] The European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes presented on 19 April 2011 its report on net neutrality, which brings nothing significant to the table, except strengthening the “wait and see” approach already presented at the Net Neutrality Summit […]

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December 3, 2014 · Blogs

Dutch government: Let’s keep data retention mostly unchanged

On 18 November, the Dutch government finally issued its response to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling in April 2014 that invalidated the data retention directive 2006/24/EC. Despite all the debate about the legality of data retention practices, the government wants to retain its current data retention legislation. The Ministry of […]

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January 13, 2016 · Blogs

Swedish border control becomes a privacy nightmare for travellers

European citizens are finding that their freedom of travel is being curtailed as more and more Schengen countries introduce temporary border controls in response to the flow of refugees from the Middle East war and conflict zones. Moreover, Sweden and Denmark have passed national legislations which gives train, bus and ship operators the responsibility of […]

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October 20, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

Facebook Files: How a ban on surveillance advertising can fix Facebook

Facebook is engulfed in the biggest crisis to hit the company since the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The explosive revelations by whistle-blower Frances Haugen, is that Facebook’s leadership refused to make changes that would make their platforms safer because they “put their immense profits before people”.

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January 13, 2016 · Blogs

Journalistic plagiarism not covered under Google’s right to erasure

On 24 December 2015, the Amsterdam District Court delivered a new ruling on the “right to erasure” for personal search results on Google (known to some as the “right to be forgotten”). In the Netherlands, this right has thus far been interpreted restrictively, with courts emphasising the importance of freedom to access information online. This […]

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