Results for node/net neutrality

May 8, 2013 · Blogs

Launch of Nakedcitizens.eu

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Privatsphäre-Kampagne Nakedcitizens.eu | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.9_Privatsphaere-Kampagne_Nakedcitizens?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130508] On 25 April 2013, a coalition of international digital human rights groups launched a campaign to warn that current European Parliament proposals could strip citizens of their privacy rights. Unprecedented lobbying efforts, mainly led by corporations, have contributed to these developments. The final vote […]

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February 11, 2015 · Blogs

Digital Rights orgs call on world leaders to uphold human rights

Over 30 digital and civil liberties organisations from around the world have endorsed a joint statement calling on the world’s governments not to expand surveillance measures in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. In addition to European Digital Rights (EDRi), signatories include Article19, digitalcourage, IT-pol, Vrijschrift, La Quadrature du Net, Panoptykon, Initiative für Netzfreiheit, […]

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July 3, 2024

2024 Digital Rights Summer School!

During the school, we’ll explore the impact of new technologies on human rights through lectures and talks by regional and international digital rights experts. You’ll take part in workshops and discussions on digital markets and online content regulation, information warfare, online harassment, AI-enabled surveillance and policing, while exploring their potential effects on regional affairs and strategies for advocacy.

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January 17, 2007 · Blogs

Is DRM fading out?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) 2007 has started with news showing the fading away of the DRM systems that have created many problems with consumers and interoperability without having clear results in the actions against illegal copies. Thus, one of the biggest record companies, EMI, has announced at the beginning of the […]

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July 4, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Profiling practices

Real Time Bidding: The auction for your attention

The digitalisation of marketing has introduced novel industry practices and business models. Some of these new systems have developed into crucial threats to people’s freedoms. A particularly alarming one is Real Time Bidding (RTB). When you visit a website, you often encounter content published by the website’s owner/author, and external ads. Since a certain type […]

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May 9, 2012

ENDitorial: ACTA is not dead

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: ACTA ist noch nicht am Ende | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.9_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120509] Next week, the European Parliament’s Development Committee (DEVE), the first of the five Committees responsible for providing opinions on the proposed ACTA agreement will vote on its draft recommendation. As of today, it appears more likely than not that […]

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January 15, 2014 · Blogs

Academics and authors stand against mass surveillance

More than 250 academics from all over the world have recently signed a declaration calling for a stop to the mass surveillance of citizens’ communications online by US and European authorities. “Intelligence agencies monitor people’s Internet use, obtain their phone calls, email messages, Facebook entries, financial details, and much more. Agencies have also gathered personal […]

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March 8, 2017 · Blogs

Is Telefónica offering real transparency and control?

Our data is extremely precious for technology companies. Internet and telecommunications services host and process huge amounts of personal data of their clients, based on often vague and confusing terms of service. The clients are rarely properly informed on what their data are being used for. On 27 February, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), […]

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June 24, 2020 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

French Avia law declared unconstitutional: what does this teach us at EU level?

On 18 June, the French Constitutional Council, the constitutional authority in France, declared the main provisions of the “Avia law” unconstitutional. France’s legislation on hate speech was adopted in May despite being severely criticised from nearly all sides: the European Commission, the Czech Republic, digital rights organisations and LBGTQI+, feminist and antiracist organisations.

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January 17, 2007

Changes in the UK ID card scheme

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The initial plan of the UK Government regarding the national ID scheme was meant to use photographs, fingerprints and iris scans in a National Identity Register. The Home Office’s Strategic Action Plan for the National Identity Scheme considers now that the iris scans is just an option […]

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March 5, 2025 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Highlights | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi-gram, 5 March 2025

What has the EDRis network been up to over the past two weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: Our call to reject the Europol reform, UK and France launch fresh attacks on encryption, & more!

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January 15, 2014 · Blogs

European Parliament’s draft report condemns US & UK intelligence services’ mass surveillance

Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence agency contractor who has revealed NSA documents showing mass surveillance programmes like Prism operated by America’s NSA intelligence agency and Tempora by the UK’s GCHQ, is to give testimony in front of the European Parliament (EP). It is not yet known when this will take place and the conditions […]

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