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The EU should regulate AI on the basis of rights, not risks

EDRi's member Access Now explains why the upcoming legislative proposal on AI should be a rights-based law, like the GDPR. The European Commission must not compromise our rights by substituting a mere risk mitigation exercise by the very actors with a vested interest in rolling out this technology.

We want more than “symbolic” gestures in response to discriminatory algorithms

In an escalating scandal over child benefits, over 26.000 families were wrongly accused of fraud by the Dutch tax authority. Families were forced to repay tens of thousands of euros, resulting in unemployment, divorces, and families losing their homes. EDRi member Bits of Freedom reveals the discriminatory algorithms used by the authority and urges the government to ban their use and develop legislation on Artificial Intelligence.

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

noyb publishes the draft decision by the DPC in the case against Facebook

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has sent a draft decision to EDRi's member noyb - European Center for Digital Rights and informed noyb that the draft decision would be shared with the other European Data Protection Authorities for consultation. The case concerns Facebook's reliance on contracts for serving advertising to its users - the legal trick Facebook applied in May 2018 to bypass the GDPR.

September 27, 2022

EU DisinfoLab 2022 Annual Conference

The EU DisinfoLab 2022 Annual Conference will take place on October 25 and 26 at the Radisson Collection Grand Place Brussels.

June 16, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Data retention, location data, cookie banners: the ePrivacy Regulation is coming

Besides cookies, the purpose of the ePrivacy Directive is to regulate a much wider area: it contains specific data protection provisions for electronic communications data, in particular content data, traffic metadata, and location data that accrues when using the internet or talking on the phone. Importantly, it also regulates if and to what extent public authorities can access this data: Article 15 of the Directive provides that restrictions of the data protection provisions need to constitute "a necessary, appropriate and proportionate measure within a democratic society to safeguard national security".

June 8, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

The state of privacy at Dutch municipalities

EDRi member Bits of Freedom has done research on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliance within the ten largest municipalities of the Netherlands. Unfortunately, most municipalities scored a failing grade, despite the fact that the GDPR has celebrated its fourth anniversary.

May 11, 2023 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

The CSA Regulation: how did it reach this point?

How did we reach this point of even discussing a law (Child Sexual Abuse Regulation) that so manifestly undermines our democratic structures, threatens to override the fundamental rights that generations have been fighting for, and ignores solid evidence and unanimous professional expertise?

April 28, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

EU’s AI law needs major changes to prevent discrimination and mass surveillance

The European Commission has just launched the its proposed regulation on artificial intelligence (AI). As governments and companies continue to use AI in ways that lead to discrimination and surveillance, the proposed law must go much further to protect people and their rights. Here’s a deeper analysis from the EDRi network, including some initial recommendations for change.

EDRi-gram, 20 April 2022

In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we look at how you can influence the AI Act in order to ban biometric mass surveillance across Europe. We also raise our concerns with the new Cybercrime Protocol which threatens to undermine our privacy to compensate for the rising powers of law enforcement authorities. Don't miss out to learn who the biggest data sinners of the last year are, join the German Big Brother Awards 2022. In previous years, the Big Brother Awards have placed a spotlight on threats to privacy and basic rights, including loyalty cards, credit scoring, toll cameras, colour photocopiers or mobile phone surveillance.

June 2, 2021 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Copyright Reform in Germany: Damage Reduction on Article 17

While waiting for the implementation guidelines from the European Commission and the CJEU ruling on whether upload filters are legal or not, some Member States are implementing the Directive. Germany has done some damage reduction in its implementation, according to former MEP and current GFF staff Felix Reda

EDRi joins 178 organisations in global call to ban biometric surveillance

From protesters taking to the streets in Slovenia, to the subways of São Paulo; from so-called “smart cities” in India, to children entering French high schools; from EU border control experiments, to the racialised over-policing of people of colour in the US. In each of these examples, people around the world are increasingly and pervasively being subjected to toxic biometric surveillance. This is why EDRi has joined the global Ban Biometric Surveillance coalition, to build on our work in Europe as part of the powerful Reclaim Your Face campaign.

October 20, 2021 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

Closing the Loopholes in EU’s Net Neutrality Framework

The European net neutrality rules are being reformed to fix one of the biggest loopholes in the EU‘s framework: Zero-Rating. EDRi has been vocal about the dangers of Zero-Rating, a practice by which telecoms companies discriminate between online services by making some data traffic more expensive than other such traffic. Prompted by three judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Board of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has acknowledged that their previous 2016 Guidelines on how to enforce the Net Neutrality Regulation have to be overhauled. The direction of the reform is looking to confirm the previous submissions of EDRi over the past six years and today we add another submission to BEREC with the hope of fixing the last loophole in Europe’s net neutrality framework.

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The EU should regulate AI on the basis of rights, not risks

We want more than “symbolic” gestures in response to discriminatory algorithms

noyb publishes the draft decision by the DPC in the case against Facebook

EU DisinfoLab 2022 Annual Conference

Data retention, location data, cookie banners: the ePrivacy Regulation is coming

The state of privacy at Dutch municipalities

The CSA Regulation: how did it reach this point?

EU’s AI law needs major changes to prevent discrimination and mass surveillance

EDRi-gram, 20 April 2022

Copyright Reform in Germany: Damage Reduction on Article 17

EDRi joins 178 organisations in global call to ban biometric surveillance

Closing the Loopholes in EU’s Net Neutrality Framework