December 11, 2025 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection

Moving past ‘Chat Control’ to solutions that truly protect kids and privacy

This article highlights evidence-based alternatives that strengthen child safety while safeguarding encryption and fundamental rights. It calls for better enforcement, more targeted tools, and meaningful support for child protection services rather than broad surveillance measures.

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December 6, 2021

IT for Change at UN Internet Governance

IT for Change will have a diverse lineup of panel discussions, workshops, and more at this year's UN IGF. The discussions will be focused on a wide range of digital justice issues from digital policy to women's right to online participation.

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April 12, 2021 · Blogs | Document pools | Highlights | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Rights: Document Pool

Find in this doc pool all EDRi analyses and documents related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and fundamental rights

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

#PrivacyCamp22: Event Summary

The theme of the 10th-anniversary edition of Privacy Camp was "Digital at the centre, rights at the margins" and included thirteen sessions on a variety of topics. The event was attended by 300 people. If you missed the event or want a reminder of what happened in a session, find the session summaries and video recordings below.

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February 2, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

A beginner’s guide to EU rules on scanning private communications: Part 2

Vital EU rules on human rights and on due process protect all of us from unfair, arbitrary or discriminatory interference with our privacy by states and companies. As we await the European Commission’s proposal for a law which we fear may make it mandatory for online chat and email services to scan every person’s private messages all the time, which may constitute mass surveillance, this blog explores what rights-respecting investigations into child sexual abuse material (CSAM) should look like instead.

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February 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

12 benchmarks for the reform and oversight of intelligence services in Austria

EDRi member epicenter.works presents the benchmarks against which the new reform of the Austrian Federal Agency for State Protection and Counterterrorism must be measured. With these criteria, guided strongly by international standards and jurisdiction, epicenter.works expect the legislative proposals on the reform in the next few weeks, ready to defend fundamental human rights.

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September 11, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Mass hacking and fundamental rights: a missed opportunity for the Court of Justice of the European Union?

On 30 April 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its decision in the ‘EncroChat’ case. The case emerged from recent European police cooperation operations against organised crime, involving the mass interception of encrypted communications by means of spyware (‘hacking’).

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November 16, 2022 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 16 November 2022

In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we cheer as Austria becomes the first country to take a clear stance against the European Commission’s controversial proposal for a child sexual abuse regulation, which threatens to undermine people's right to privacy and freedom of expression. We also follow Panoptykon's, EDRi member in Poland, application against the Polish state for violating their right to privacy by allowing the intelligence agencies to act beyond scrutiny.

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April 28, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-19: A Commission hitchhiker’s tech guide to the App Store

How's does the European Commission's toolbox and data protection guidelines fit with the EDRi network's take?

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December 6, 2023 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 6 December 2023

In this edition, we reflect on how our movement of human rights organisations and supporters influenced the European Parliament to reject the mass scanning of private messages in the CSA Regulation. And as we approach the final negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, we are raising the voices of 16 organisations, calling on the Council to effectively regulate the use of AI systems by law enforcement, migration control, and national security authorities in the law. Read on to learn more about digital exclusion in Europe, the expansion of the EURODAC database, and the EU's plans for facial recognition.

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May 13, 2020 · On the ground | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality

Xnet issues two complaints to improve data protection in Spain

Xnet highlights gaps in Spain’s adaptation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Spanish member of EDRi has opened two complaints to the European Commission related to the lack of effective adaptation of the data minimisation principle and the lack of conciliation between personal data protection and freedom of expression and information in the Spanish legislation.

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September 11, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Denmark will issue removal orders without court approval: Impacts on free speech and pro-Palestinian voices

Removal orders in the Terrorist Content Online (TCO) Regulation currently require prior court authorisation in Denmark, but this will soon change as a consequence of a political agreement to strengthen the fight against antisemitism. Together with a broadened definition of antisemitism focusing on the State of Israel, the already highly problematic TCO Regulation could be further leveraged by Danish authorities for arbitrary censorship of pro-Palestinian voices on social media.

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