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January 19, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Profiling practices

Hide and Seek: Polish DPA agrees that people should be able to access their advertising profiles, but there’s no way to do so

Following EDRi member Panoptykon’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint against one of the biggest Polish news website, Interia.pl - the Polish Data Protection Authority has confirmed that online publishers should give users access to their advertising profiles generated for the purposes of delivering behavioural ads.

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February 28, 2023 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

2023: Important consultations for your Digital Rights!

Public consultations are an opportunity to influence future legislation at an early stage, in the European Union and beyond. They are your opportunity to help shaping a brighter future for digital rights, such as your right to a private life, data protection, or your freedom of opinion and expression.

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October 24, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

ENDitorial: YouTube puts uploaders, viewers & itself in a tough position

A pattern is emerging. After blocking a controversial video, YouTube nonpologises for doing so, and reinstates the video... just to block it again a few months later. The procedures around content moderation need to improve, but that's not all: more needs to change.

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June 2, 2021 · Blogs | Information democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Challenge against Clearview AI in Europe

This legal challenge relates to complaints filed with 5 European data protection authorities against Clearview AI, Inc. ("Clearview"), a facial recognition technology company building a gigantic database of faces.

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November 7, 2018 · Highlights | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Disinformation and electoral interference | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Profiling practices

Facebook fails political ads tests several times

On 28 June 2018, Facebook announced it had set forth a compulsory “Paid for by” feature, limiting anonymity by requiring to submit a valid ID and proof of residence. This had been introduced in reaction to a series of election interference in the past year through foreign political advertising on social media platforms.

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June 23, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

The EU must stop the digitalisation of the deportation regime and withdraw the new Return Regulation

The European Commission’s new legislative proposal for a deportation regulation fuels detention, criminalisation, and digital surveillance. The #ProtectNotSurveil coalition is demanding the end of the deportation regime and for the Commission to withdraw its proposal.

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September 30, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

LQDN fights to protect French citizens from biometric mass surveillance

In August, La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) filed a complaint before the Conseil d’État (France’s highest administrative court) against provisions of the French code of criminal procedure which authorise the use of facial recognition to identify people registered in a criminal record police file – called “TAJ” for “Traitement des antécédents judiciaires” – by the police.

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April 17, 2024 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Privacy is not for sale: Meta must stop charging for people’s right to privacy

Ahead of a crucial opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) – a grouping of the EU’s chief privacy regulators - on Meta’s plan to charge for privacy, the European Commission has opened an investigation that we hope will cast light on the unlawfulness of Meta’s so-called ‘Pay or Okay’ model, which has become the ‘talk of the town’ in Brussels.

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March 25, 2021 · Open letters | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Coalition of human rights and journalist organisations express concerns for free speech

On 25 March, 61 human rights and journalist organisations sent a joint letter to Members of the European Parliament, urging them to vote against the proposed Regulation on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online.

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May 4, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies

Copyright: European Court of Justice strictly limits the use of upload filters

“Today’s ruling sets an important precedent for the protection of freedom of expression online. Nevertheless, it does not go far enough. The European Court of Justice does not completely rule out the use of upload filters to enforce copyright on online platforms. At least, however, the court confirms what civil society has been emphasizing for years: upload filters are unable to reliably distinguish between copyright infringements and legitimate forms of free expression such as parodies or quotations. It is therefore right that the highest court limits the use of upload filters under Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive to uploads that constitute manifest infringements, such as uploads of entire movies.”

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November 16, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

PEGA hearing about spyware and ePrivacy

Following the public revelations of the widespread use of Pegasus and other spyware, the European Parliament formed the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA) in March 2022.

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August 8, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech

Meta pledges to ask EU users for consent before showing behavioural ads

In a surprise announcement last Tuesday, Meta made the long overdue promise to finally ask its users for their consent before showing them behavioral ads – at least if they live in the European Union, EEA or Switzerland.

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