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December 19, 2014 · Blogs

EDRi Awards 2014

For the first time this year and with great solemnity, EDRi presents its first annual awards. 1. The “Humpty Dumpty Award” for the most silly “statistics”. Winner: Deutsche Telekom, for its “One Million Cyber Attacks per day”. This statistic was not plagiarised by any of DT’s employees. Honourable Mention: TERA for its “study” on losses […]

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February 2, 2006

French anti-terrorism law not anti-constitutional

The French constitutional council judged on 19 January 2006, that the new national anti-terrorism law, submitted by the French Senators, was not anti-constitutional. The Senators were particularly concerned with two provisions of this law. The first one was the provision allowing the police to obtain communication data without any judicial order, in order to “prevent […]

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September 4, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

E-Commerce review: Safeguarding human rights when moderating online content

This is the fourth and last blog post in our series on Europe’s future rules for intermediary liability and content moderation. You can read the introduction here. In our previous blog posts on the upcoming E-Commerce review, we discussed examples of what can go wrong with online content regulation. But let’s imagine for a moment […]

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January 30, 2008

Key privacy concerns in Denmark 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) a. Data Retention – a reality 15 September 2007 – data retention became a reality in Denmark. The administrative order, which sets the scope and conditions for data retention, was approved on 28 September 2006 with an implementation deadline of one year. The order, which was drafted […]

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January 30, 2008

Key privacy concerns in Czech Republik 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Last year has seen an increased number attempts from government bodies to extend their powers and make it easier to access people’s private information. To name a few, there were legal proposals to increase the number of agencies authorized to access and process electronic communication data collected […]

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January 30, 2008

Key privacy concerns in France 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) 6 January 2008 was the 30th anniversary of the French Data Protection Act. But no one really cared. The only French contribution to this 2nd European DP day has been the publication by the CNIL (French DP Authority) of a poll result that it commissioned in November […]

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May 27, 2024 · Blogs | Campaigns | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

How to fight Biometric Mass Surveillance after the AI Act: A legal and practical guide

The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act has been adopted, laying out an in-principle ban on live mass facial recognition and other public biometric surveillance by police. Yet the wide exceptions to this ban may pave the way to legitimise the use of these systems. This living guide, for civil society organisations, communities and activists, charts a human rights-based approach for how to keep resisting biometric mass surveillance practices now and in the future

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February 15, 2006

French Big Brother Awards 2006

The 6th edition of the French Big Brother Awards taking place in Paris on 3 February has chosen the following in the 5 different award sections, for causing the most damage to personal privacy. The Orwell Award for State official – the winner was Jean-Michel Charpin, Directeur de l’Insee (INES) for his participation in the […]

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September 21, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

59% of polled EU citizens decry anti-terror upload filters. You should too.

Following disruptions due to the COVID-19 crisis, the negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers on the Terrorist Content Regulation are resuming this week.

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September 8, 2010

INDECT – privacy ethics in a secret project

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ INDECT – Datenschutzethik eines Geheimprojekts | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2165] A new document on ethical issues published by the INDECT European research project on public surveillance has once more attracted the scrutiny of the media. Previous allegations of secrecy were followed by an attempt to strengthen the project’s Ethics Board. […]

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December 9, 2020 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Wikimedia Deutschland

Wikimedia Deutschland is a German non-profit organisation, with currently around 80,000 members, part of the worldwide Wikimedia movement. It believes that equal opportunities in accessing knowledge and education is a human right.

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June 7, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

LEAK: France & Germany demand more censorship from internet companies

Policy makers put pressure on the EU to enact legislation for online platforms like Facebook, but also for small companies, to be legally required to engage in more and quicker privatised and unaccountable censorship.

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