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January 15, 2004

UK: 4 million surveillance cameras

With four million CCTV cameras watching the public, the UK now has the highest level of surveillance in the world. The number of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras has quadrupled in the past three years, and there is now one camera for every 14 people in the UK. According to an article in the newspaper […]

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December 26, 2013 · Blogs

Digital Rights Sessions at 30c3

Over the next few days, the 30th edition of the Chaos Communication Congress will take place in Hamburg. If you are there, you can drop by our EDRi assembly located on the first floor in Garderobe 2 (beta map). We have teamed up with the EFF and NoisySquare for this joint assembly which will be […]

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May 21, 2014 · Blogs

Artist collective threatened with legal action for Google Nest spoof

At the tech conference re:publica which took place on 6-8 May, numerous participants fell for a hoax by the Peng! Collective. During a one-hour presentation on the main stage with the title “your data, our future”, the artist group unveiled a site called “Google Nest” which mimicked the tech giant’s corporate design. The site introduced […]

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January 13, 2016 · Blogs

Chaos Communication Congress 2015

The Chaos Communication Congress, which is the world’s longest-running annual hacker conference, took place from 27 to 30 December 2015. It gathered 12,000 participants from around the globe and featured more than 160 superb talks in the areas of hacking, science, arts, culture, ethics, society and politics. We have collected all must-see digital rights sessions […]

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May 12, 2016 · Blogs

European Digital Rights at re:publica 2016

Last week, the re:publica, “Europe’s most exciting conference on Internet and society”, took place in Berlin. EDRi’s members and observers were out in force and participated in the 10th anniversary of the re:publica. We’ve collected all talks by our network for you (in chronological order): Fight for your digital rights (in German) Link to re:publica […]

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May 25, 2016 · Blogs

European fundamental rights to be regulated by companies

Today, on 25 May, the European Commission published two new proposals of their Digital Single Market strategy: its update of the Directive on audiovisual media services (ADVMS) and a Communication on online platforms, together with the evidence document for the platforms Communication. The Communication on Platforms worries us the most. For instance, the proposals with […]

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October 5, 2016 · Blogs

The GS Media case: An attack on the world wide web

The cliché goes that “hard cases make for bad law”. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment in GS Media case (C‑160/15) is one of the real-life examples of this. It is not easy to sympathise with the losing party, GS Media, who exploits a provocative blog with the name “GeenStijl” (which […]

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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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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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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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August 27, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

E-Commerce review: Mitigating collateral damage

This is the third article in our series on Europe’s future rules for intermediary liability and content moderation. You can read the introduction here. Asking social media and other platform companies to solve problems around illegal online content can have serious unintended consequences. It’s therefore crucial that new EU legislation in this field considers such […]

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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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