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October 28, 2020 · On the ground

Member in the Spotlight: Metamorphosis Foundation

Metamorphosis Foundation envisages a society where engaged and aware citizens are actively using innovative tools to exercise their civic rights and responsibilities; vigilant in influencing and holding their government to account, and thus ensuring democratic, accountable, and responsive governance.

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April 1, 2026 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 1 April 2026

What has the EDRi network been up to over the past few weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: Rushing, forcing, squeezing – EU’s deregulation & securitisation agenda makes a joke of our rights

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February 5, 2025 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Why Ireland is the Achilles heel of the EU’s fightback against Big Tech

The recent controversies surrounding Big Tech moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — who are defying content moderation norms and accusing the EU of censorship — should come as no surprise to those following the tech industry closely. For over a decade, Big Tech has approached the EU's robust data protection framework as little more than a compliance checkbox, rather than a set of binding legal obligations.

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November 4, 2021 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Online tracking industry / AdTech

Facebook deleting facial recognition: Five reasons to take it with a pinch of salt

Voluntary self-regulation from tech giants is superficial and no replacement for actual legislation

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April 20, 2016 · Blogs

Huge protest against corruption & surveillance in Macedonia

The political crisis in Macedonia deepened on 12 April when the President Gjorgi Ivanov announced that he would issue a blanket pardon to 56 politicians suspected of involvement in serious crimes. Over the last eight days, tens of thousands of citizens took to the streets of the capital city Skopje and about a dozen other […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

Slovak Constitutional Court suspends data retention legislation

The European Court of Justice ruled on 8 April, in a case brought before the Court by EDRi member Digital Rights Ireland, together with the Austrian Working Group on Data Retention, that the Data Retention Directive contravenes European law. On 23 April 2014, the Slovak Constitutional Court preliminary suspended Slovak implementation of the Directive as […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

Swiss data retention visualisation

The Swiss civil society group Digital Society Switzerland is working on building opposition to the practice of the “data retention” – the requirement for telecommunications companies to store for six months meta-data (such as information on who emailed or called whom, and where the telephones were located) and to make it available for law enforcement […]

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December 14, 2011

Transatlantic data privacy in debate at Privacy Conference

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Datenschutzkonferenz: Debatte über einen transatlantischen Datenschutz | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Datenschutzkonferenz_Debatte_ueber_den_transatlantischen_Datenschutz?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] The 2nd edition of the Annual European Data Protection and Privacy Conference took place on 6 December 2011, mostly featuring speakers pulled from its corporate sponsors, although it also included a few key European institutions’ representatives and data protection officials. […]

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December 2, 2015 · Blogs

EDPS Opinion: Effective data protection needed for “big data”

On 19 November 2015, the European Data Protection Supervisor published an Opinion on the challenges of “big data”. The Opinion is entitled “A call for transparency, user control, data protection by design and accountability”. The title alone shows how extensive and complicated the issue of big data really is, and squeezing all of these issues […]

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March 27, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online

GDPR incompatibility – the blind spot of the copyright debate

The debate around the Copyright Directive reform has been intense. Former Article 13, which became Article 17 in the text voted by the European Parliament on 26 March, created the greatest controversy between stakeholders arguing about the so-called “value gap” in the creative sectors, upload filters, and a new platform liability regime, among others issues. […]

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March 27, 2019 · On the ground | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online

New freedom of information law proposed in North Macedonia

The right to freedom of information (FOI) is protected by law in North Macedonia since 2006. In theory, the law complies with international standards and creates a solid basis for establishing a system to protect this right. However, the practice during the past 12 years has shown legal gaps, inconvenient practices, and inefficiency of the […]

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October 23, 2013 · Blogs

France is demanding explanations from the US over NSA surveillance

On 21 October 2013, the French government summoned Charles Rivkin, the US ambassador in France, demanding urgent explanation regarding the revelations by Le Monde that, according to the documents released by Edward Snowden, NSA has intercepted French citizens’ phone and internet communications, at a massive scale. Le Monde revealed on that day that, during a […]

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