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June 15, 2011

Recommended Action. Smart meters: Let's be clever and team up

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Mitmachen! Smart Metering: Seid klug und schließt Euch zusammen! | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.12_Mitmachen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110623] The European Union decided that 80% of all users are to have a smart meter in 2020. These instruments will then measure the consumption of gas and electricity. They can be integrated in a smart grid, a […]

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February 7, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Platform regulation

The EU Parliament takes strong stance against surveillance ads

The Platform Power campaign, alongside many civil society organisations, raised its voice for stronger laws against the business model of Big Tech online platforms and succesfully pressured law-makers to put people at the center of the debate.

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April 19, 2017 · Blogs

Challenges for “Legal Frameworks for Hacking by Law Enforcement”

A study entitled “Legal Frameworks for Hacking by Law Enforcement: Identification, Evaluation and Comparison of Practices” was published by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Civil Liberties Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). It presents policy proposals on the use of hacking techniques by […]

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May 5, 2010 · Blogs

EuroDIG 2010: where are we going ?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuroDIG 2010: Wie geht es weiter? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1902] Between the 29-30 April 2010, Madrid was the host of the third European Dialogue of Internet Governance (EuroDIG), an open platform for informal and inclusive discussion and exchange on public policy issues related to Internet Governance between stakeholders from all […]

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January 20, 2025 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Disinformation and electoral interference

Meta and X are going rogue. Here is what Europe should do now.

With Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and many other tech billionaires cuddling up to an ever more authoritarian Trump administration, it is crucial that the EU sticks to stringent enforcement of its tech laws. However, to solve the core problem, we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in truly independent digital alternatives.

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September 9, 2024 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention

Enforcing the European Union’s new digital platform laws: How it is going so far

It’s already September and the European Parliament’s summer break is officially over. While the legislature was sleeping, the European Union’s (EU) tech enforcers and their counterparts—Big Tech lobbyists—have been busy plotting their next moves. If you have been away over the summer, here is what you might have missed and what that means for the state of digital rights in the EU

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May 28, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics

Croatia in preparation for AI Law: Activists warn of risks to rights and call for safeguards going beyond EU AI Act

EDRi affiliate Politiscope recently hosted an event in Croatia for journalists and activists to discuss human rights impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), raise awareness about AI related harms, and to influence future national policy to incorporate safeguards for people’s rights.

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November 16, 2022 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Europol is going to collect a massive collection of intimate conversations from European youngsters

This story begins with the creation of a new European agency, but ends with one of the world's largest databases of private chats and images shared by European youngsters—built by the police.

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February 23, 2011

Is the EU going to have a new common patent law?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Einigt sich die Europäische Union auf ein gemeinsames Patent? | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.4_Einigt_sich_EU_auf_gemeinsames_Patent] Based on a recommendation of the Committee on Legal Affairs, the European Parliament approved on 15 February 2011 the use of the enhanced co-operation procedure to create a unitary patent system in the EU, following the request […]

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September 24, 2025 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and surveillance | Surveillance and data retention

Chat Control: What is actually going on?

In summer 2025, so-called “Chat Control” became a huge topic of public attention. This is because in a major vote planned for 13 or 14 October, EU governments will decide whether to endorse or reject a mass surveillance, encryption-breaking and anonymity-ending law: the EU CSA Regulation. However, there remain many democratic checks-and-balances in the EU lawmaking system that mean we still have a strong chance to stop measures that would amount to Chat Control.

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Nine controversies about obligatory prepaid registration

“Register your prepaid and get free calls/internet transfer/win a car” – you can hear from Polish telecom operators, as a reminder that all pre-paid SIM cards have to be registered by 1 February 2017. One could almost think that this is just a nicely coordinated campaign of leading telecoms, aimed at collecting a bit more data […]

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality

How it started, how it’s going: Halfway through the current European Commission’s legislative term

In January 2022, EDRi held a panel at its annual flagship event Privacy Camp to discuss the EU’s current legislative term and what to expect by the next EU elections in terms of digital rights.

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