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August 2, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Alternatives to dominant digital services

Regulating Big Tech in Europe with the Digital Services Act & Digital Markets Act

The EU’s latest flagship laws Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) are in force, the regulatory structure is (slowly) being set up, the first Big Tech companies are suing in court, and the European Commission throws a party (yes, really). But what does this mean for people in their role as platform users and what’s coming next?

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January 17, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

Challenges ahead: European Media Freedom Act falls short in safeguarding journalists and EU fundamental values

The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) culminated in a politically pressured final trilogue on 15 December 2023. Unfortunately, the agreed-upon text lacks crucial safeguards against surveillance of journalists, which dangerously promote the use of spyware in the EU. It alsoraises concerns about Article 17 and the “media exemption”, potentially undermining the Digital Services Act (DSA) provisions.

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June 30, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

German Big Brother Awards call out top privacy abusers

On Friday, 11 June 2021, the German Big Brother Awards (BBA) gala was held in Bielefeld, Germany. Organised by EDRi member Digitalcourage with jury members and support from several German groups, including other EDRi members, these awards have been held since 2000

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December 1, 2021 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Platform regulation

EU Parliament Takes First Step Towards a Fair and Interoperable Market

The EU’s Proposal for a Digital Market Act (DMA) is an attempt to create a fairer and more competitive market for online platforms in the EU. It sets out a standard for very large platforms, which act as gatekeepers between business users and end users. As gatekeepers “have substantial control over the access to, and are entrenched in digital markets,” the DMA sets out a list of dos and don'ts with which platforms will have to comply.

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May 31, 2023 · Blogs | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Platform regulation

Will the European Union allow politicians to use your personal data for political advertising?

A leak by POLITICO revealed that the European Commission presented three scenarios on how the Political ads regulation will impact the processing of special categories of personal data such as sexual orientation, religion or mental health.

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March 7, 2024 · Blogs | Op-eds | Privacy and surveillance | Platform regulation

Delay, depress, destroy: How tech corporations subvert the EU’s new digital laws

When the DSA and DMA were passed in 2022, major tech industry associations praised the new laws as significant achievements. It is time for Big Tech corporations to stop pouting and live up to their responsibility.

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April 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Computers are binary, people are not: how AI systems undermine LGBTQ identity

Companies and governments are already using AI systems to make decisions that lead to discrimination. When police or government officials rely on them to determine who they should watch, interrogate, or arrest — or even “predict” who will violate the law in the future — there are serious and sometimes fatal consequences. EDRi's member Access Now explain how AI can automate LGBTQ oppression.

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April 20, 2022

Stopping SLAPPs: legal threats to media freedom and what the UK should do to prevent them

Organised by the Foreign Policy Centre and ARTICLE 19, this event will bring together affected journalists, media defence lawyers and civil society to explore both the impact of SLAPPs as well as ideas for potential solutions.

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April 13, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker voices EDRi’s concerns with the CSA Regulation

Meredith Whittaker, the President of the Signal Foundation, delivered the closing keynote speech at EDRi’s 20th-anniversary celebration in March 2023. The tech professional focused on the “recent spate of regulatory proposals and misguided tech fixes [like the EU’s Child Sexual Abuse Regulation] that offer false and surveillant solutions to complex social problems – solutions that always seem to lump the right to privacy in with malfeasance, and offer to address bad actions by eliminating privacy.”

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November 29, 2023

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025

This is the exhibition conceived by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler for Osservatorio's headquarters in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan that maps our technological present, illustrating how power and technology have been intertwined since the 1500s.

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April 17, 2024 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance

EDRi-gram, 17 April 2024

But what knocked everyone's socks off was the massive victory in Greece, where EDRi member Homo Digitalis' strategic complaint led to a record-breaking fine to the Ministry of Asylum and Migration for violating people's data protection rights in its border management systems KENTAUROS and HYPERION. This news from Greece, immediately followed by the European Parliament's vote on the European Union's asylum system (EURODAC), makes it irrefutable that the Migration Pact is the EU's attempt to codify in law surveillance practices that not only gravely harm the rights of migrants but which are illegal. 

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February 19, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality

The ePrivacy Regulation proposal has been withdrawn, but the fight for your privacy is far from over

The European Commission's withdrawal of the ePrivacy Regulation proposal is a major setback for privacy rights in Europe, driven by pressure from industry interests and national security concerns. However, EDRi remains committed to advocating for stronger privacy protections, challenging commercial and state surveillance in future legislative efforts.

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