Complaints Mechanism
The process to deal with possible issues should be clear and provide an independent review, allowing EDRi members in making decisions. EDRi members have adopted a Complaint mechanism in 2021. The mechanism is now operational.
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Complaints Mechanism
The process to deal with possible issues should be clear and provide an independent review, allowing EDRi members in making decisions. EDRi members have adopted a Complaint mechanism in 2021. The mechanism is now operational.
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EDRi-gram, 16 November 2022
In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we cheer as Austria becomes the first country to take a clear stance against the European Commission’s controversial proposal for a child sexual abuse regulation, which threatens to undermine people's right to privacy and freedom of expression. We also follow Panoptykon's, EDRi member in Poland, application against the Polish state for violating their right to privacy by allowing the intelligence agencies to act beyond scrutiny.
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People working in the Czech media do not trust technology companies, they are also concerned about artificial intelligence decision-making
These findings come as a result of a survey conducted in the summer of 2022 as part of the Promoting human rights in the digital era project. The digital legal organisation and an EDRi member in the Czech Republic IuRe (Iuridicum Remedium) also took part.
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Mid-point EDRi strategy review: impact and adjustments in a changing field
In April 2020, during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, EDRi adopted its first network multi-annual strategy for the years 2020-2024. At the mid-term of the strategy implementation, what have we learned?
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“Take it personal, and don´t”: changing the decolonising process and letting ourselves be changed
This blog reviews the decolonising process so far and what we've been upto since our last communication, shared in December last year. It adds detail to how we are organising, shifting, and re-orienting the iterative and complex needs of a decolonising process.
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EDRi-gram, 28 September 2022
We celebrate the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union that the general storage of data undermines people's right to privacy and data protection. We're also exploring how a community-focused project enables young people to defend their online privacy.
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Privacy Defenders: Enabling young people to defend their online privacy
EDRi member Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) in cooperation with Croatian NGOs NUM and Politiscope will soon finish the implementation of the project Privacy Defenders, supported by the Active Citizen Fund (EEA and Norway). The project aims to build the capacities of young people from a small local community to advocate for and defend their online privacy.
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Identity Crisis
Identity systems create and facilitate exclusion, insecurity, and surveillance.
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EDRi-gram, 14 September
“What you’re saying is, for me to own a car and to drive, I have to submit that my photo and information are going to be used for policing purposes across the entire EU… Are we all walking around as citizens? Or are we all walking around as suspects?”. The European Commission’s Prüm II proposal fails to put in place vital safeguards designed to protect all of us from state over-reach and authoritarian mass surveillance practices. Check out more in the EDRi-gram.
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EDRi-gram, 6 July 2022
“Use of digital technologies is taken as a given, and yet for a variety of reasons almost one-fifth of Czech households do not have internet access and a quarter of adults do not have a smartphone. Regrettably, in Czech media there is not much discussion about this and other challenges of the digital era.” ― Hynek Trojánek, PR coordinator for the Promoting Human Rights in the Digital Era
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“You’ll find it on the internet.” How digitalisation impacts the lives of people whose voices often go unheard
As a rule, government and official websites make no allowances for users with special needs. At the same time, even some IT specialists prefer to use paper as an alternative. These were among the findings of a unique piece of research which was part of the Promoting Human Rights in the Digital Era project.
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The European Media Freedom Act: a unique opportunity to safeguard Europe’s media and democratic values
Media independence, freedom and plurality are under pressure in the EU. The upcoming European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) is a unique opportunity to protect Europe’s media and, by ensuring a diverse information ecosystem, also safeguarding EU democratic values.
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