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November 25, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality

A vicious circle? Enabling privacy-friendly alternatives to behavioural advertising

EDRi member Panoptykon Foundation published a report “To Track or Not to Track: Towards Privacy-Friendly and Sustainable Advertising” which argues that there is only one winner in this supposed “win-win” situation: the ad tech industry.

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January 18, 2006

Data Retention Directive: reactions related to the costs involved

After the European Parliament adopted the data retention directive, in many countries the debate only began about the costs. The European Parliament decided to delete the article that demanded cost reimbursement for all additional costs of retention, storage and transmission of data. In the draft directive adopted by the Civil Liberties Committee, Members had initially […]

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June 10, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

UK: Stop social media monitoring by local authorities

Would you like your local government to judge you by your Facebook activity? In a recent study, we investigated how local authorities (Councils) in Great Britain are looking at social media accounts as part of their investigation tactics on issues such as benefits, debt recovery, fraud, environmental investigations, and children’s social care.

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April 25, 2012

Big Brother Awards Germany 2012

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Big Brother Awards Deutschland 2012 | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Big_Brother_Awards_Deutschland_2012?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] EDRi member FoeBuD staged the twelfth German Big Brother Awards on Friday, 13 April 2012 in Bielefeld, Germany. Seven “winners” were presented, and as in most years, none of these sent a representative to receive their award. Still, the organisers suspect […]

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July 15, 2009

Azeri online activists framed for hooliganism and put in prison

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Azeri Online-Aktivisten wird Hooligmanismus angehängt – Haftstrafen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1464] Two young Azeri bloggers – Emin Abdullayev (Milli), one of the founders of AN Network, a grass roots youth movement and Adnan Hajizada, a video-blogger from OL! Youth Movement – have been arrested by the police after they have […]

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March 2, 2017 · Blogs

Civil society letter: Without reforms in US surveillance laws, the Privacy Shield must be suspended

A coalition of 17 global civil society organisations, including many EDRi members, wrote a letter to the European Commissioner for Justice and Consumers, Věra Jourová, to express the need for a reform of US surveillance laws. The coalition of civil rights group claim that Europe must suspend the data-transfer arrangement (the EU-US Privacy Shield) unless the […]

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June 24, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet

EU Commission discards criticism of net neutrality enforcement

On 30 April 2019, EDRi and 31 other civil rights organisations sent an open letter to the EU Commission and BEREC. The letter criticised the lack of enforcement of current net neutrality rules in Europe. The signatories also emphasised that the EU finally needs to act against the widespread use of zero-rating practices. Zero-rating favours […]

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June 16, 2010

ENDitorial: New coalition's U-turn on privacy in UK

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Kehrtwende der neuen britischen Koalition | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2006] The coalition Government plans to keep the Summary Care Record, despite pre-election pledges by both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to rip up the system – which is not compliant with the I v Finland judgement of the European […]

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March 6, 2017 · Blogs

Are net neutrality and privacy Europe’s brilliant way of trumping destructionism?

For the online economy to work, trust and competition are needed. Trust to drive take-up of services and competition to drive down prices and drive up innovation. Privacy The 2016 Eurobarometer (pdf) survey found that nearly 60% of individuals in the EU had avoided certain websites for privacy reasons, while 82% were in favour of […]

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May 9, 2012

UK High Court orders ISPs to block The Pirate Bay

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Britischer High Court entscheidet, ISPs müssen The Pirate Bay sperren | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.9_Britischer_High_Court_entscheidet_ISPs_muessen_The_Pirate_Bay_sperren?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120509] The UK High Court has recently decided that The Pirate Bay (TPB) must be blocked by 5 UK internet service providers. No technical details were given in the ruling as, according to Mr Justice Arnold, the […]

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March 9, 2016 · Blogs

The lobby-tomy 2: What was the lobbying about?

What do companies really think about privacy protection? Publicly everybody thinks privacy is important, but do they think the same thing behind closed doors? What were the hot issues during the lobby and did everybody treat privacy protection well? The new European data protection regulation is the most lobbied piece of legislation so far because […]

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September 9, 2024

BigBrotherAwards Germany 2024

Watch as the worst offenders on privacy and surveillance are being slammed at the German BBA gala. The BigBrotherAwards are presented to companies, institutions and persons who act in a prominent and sustained way to invade people’s privacy, sell personal data or use it beyond the permitted purpose. Starting in 2000, the German BigBrotherAwards are organised by EDRi member Digitalcourage.

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