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October 20, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Bugs in our pockets?

Now, in Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning, the authors take a long hard look at the options for mass surveillance via software embedded in people’s devices, as opposed to the current practice of monitoring our communications. Client-side scanning, as the agencies’ new wet dream is called, has a range of possible missions. While Apple and the FBI talked about finding still images of sex abuse, the EU was talking last year about videos and text too, and of targeting terrorism once the argument had been won on child protection.

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April 25, 2022 · Blogs | Highlights | Press releases | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

EU negotiators approve good DSA, but more work is needed to build a better internet

Friday night’s political agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA) is a good first step towards protecting people’s rights on the internet and to some extent limiting the immense power that Big Tech companies have over people and democracies.

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May 13, 2020 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: D3 – Defesa dos Direitos Digitais

D3 is a volunteer-run association dedicated to the defense of fundamental rights in the digital context. Its focus is to ensure autonomy and freedom of choice; uphold privacy and free access to information, knowledge and culture; and defend digital rights as a reinforcement to the principles of a democratic society.

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Declaration of Digital Principles: Towards a digital pillar of the EU?

On 26 January the European Commission proposed a Declaration on European Digital Rights and Principles. The Declaration will take the form of a joint solemn declaration to be signed by the European Parliament, the Council, and the Commission.

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March 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Open internet and inclusive technology | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality | Transparency

At a glance: Does the EU Digital Services Act protect freedom of expression?

The Digital Services Act is in many ways an ambitious piece of legislation that seeks to make ‘Big Tech’ accountable to public authorities through new significant transparency and due diligence obligations. It also contains many provisions that could help protect users’ fundamental rights. Whether it will be successful at protecting freedom of expression from undue restrictions or reining in the power of Big Tech rather than cementing it, is, however, questionable. EDRi's member ARTICLE 19 share its first thoughts on why.

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March 5, 2020 · EDRi-gram

EDRi-gram 17.20, 20 November 2019

Would a notification mechanism system make cross-border access to data for criminal proceedings too complicated and inefficient? (Or perhaps just human right proof?)

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April 4, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

ISOC BG: Big speeds, Big Brother, big Bulgarian activism

In this blogpost published on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of EDRi we present our member ISOC Bulgaria.

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October 14, 2020 · Highlights | Publications | Information democracy

Launch of EDRi Annual Report 2019

2019 has also been a pivotal year, with more attempts to rein in the power of dominant internet platforms. EDRi's members Europe-wide have continued highlighting the privacy-invasive surveillance-based business models of the digital platforms dominating the online market, and the significant consequences this may have for civil rights and control of society.

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May 7, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Cross border access to data | Digital rights in trade agreements | Surveillance and data retention

Digital trade: the new frontline in the fight for our rights

The EU is signing digital trade deals that could undermine fundamental rights and block oversight of software systems shaping our lives. From data protection to algorithmic accountability, these agreements risk empowering opaque systems - used by both companies and governments - at the expense of the people most affected by them.

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April 20, 2022 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet – ApTI (Association for Technology and Internet)

ApTI is a non-governmental organisation that aims to support and promote a free and open Internet where human rights are guaranteed and protected. A free Internet represents an environment where privacy and freedom of expression are respected, while an open Internet represents a guarantee for secure and rightful access to the benefits brought by information technology.

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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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