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September 30, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

LQDN fights to protect French citizens from biometric mass surveillance

In August, La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) filed a complaint before the Conseil d’État (France’s highest administrative court) against provisions of the French code of criminal procedure which authorise the use of facial recognition to identify people registered in a criminal record police file – called “TAJ” for “Traitement des antécédents judiciaires” – by the police.

September 28, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Commission’s position on tackling illegal content online is contradictory and dangerous for free speech

Today, on 28 September, the European Commission published its long-awaited Communication “Tackling Illegal Content Online”. This follows a leaked copy we previously analysed. The document puts virtually all its focus on internet companies monitoring online communications, in order to remove content that they decide might be illegal. It presents few safeguards for free speech, and […]

September 27, 2023 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Open Letter: European Parliament must protect journalists and ban spyware in the European Media Freedom Act

As the European Parliament gets set to vote on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) next week, 80 civil society and journalists’ associations are calling on Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to ensure meaningful protection for journalists in the regulation by including a total ban on spyware.

French Administrative Supreme Court illegitimately buries the debate over internet censorship law

In November 2023, EDRi and members filed a complaint against the French decree implementing the EU regulation addressing the dissemination of 'terrorist content' online. Last week, the French supreme administrative court rejected our arguments and refused to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

October 3, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Battle lines drawn between citizens and internet giants in EU e-Privacy Regulation

On 2 October, the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and the Industry Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) voted on the e-Privacy Regulation, the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) voted on 28 September. These votes will feed into the final decision to be taken by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice […]

November 7, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Brussels up close – Experiences from the EDRi exchange programme

Learning and knowing abstractly how the EU works is one thing, seeing it up close and doing advocacy work right there is quite another! I am a Policy Advisor for the Austrian EDRi member organisation "epicenter.works – for digital rights" and, in October 2018, I spent two weeks with the EDRi office in Brussels. My aim was to get a better understanding of EU law making and advocacy.

Booklet: Technological testing grounds, border tech is experimenting with people’s lives

The European Union is increasingly experimenting with high risk migration management technologies.

Human Rights Groups Submit Complaint to European Ombudsman Calling for Investigation into EU Surveillance Aid

Privacy International (PI), together with 5 other human rights groups, has submitted a complaint to the European Ombudsman calling for an investigation into EU surveillance aid to non-EU countries.

June 30, 2021 · Blogs | Press mentions | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

How Europol’s reform enables ‘NSA-style’ surveillance operations

“More than 100 million”. That’s the number of encrypted messages that French and Dutch law enforcement announced they had collected after infiltrating Encrochat in 2020, a company selling encrypted communication services and devices, writes EDRi's Chloé Berthélémy.

The Digital Markets Act promises to free people from digital walled gardens

Last night, 24 March, the European Union made a great step forward to better protecting our rights online as it approved the political trilogue compromise for the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This decision promises to challenge the strongly centralised environment of Big Tech platforms exerting too much power over our rights and over the flow of information in society. Tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will have to start following strict rules that ensure free and fair competition in the digital markets.

Tear down the tracking wall

It has become a daily routine: “consenting to” being tracked, on the basis of meaningless explanations (or no explanation at all) before you’re allowed access to a website or online service. It’s about time to set limits to this tracking rat race.

October 4, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

The privacy movement and dissent: Art

This is the third blogpost of a series, originally published by EDRi member Bits of Freedom, that explains how the activists of a Berlin-based privacy movement operate, organise, and express dissent. The series is inspired by a thesis by Loes Derks van de Ven, which describes the privacy movement as she encountered it from 2013 […]

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LQDN fights to protect French citizens from biometric mass surveillance

Commission’s position on tackling illegal content online is contradictory and dangerous for free speech

Open Letter: European Parliament must protect journalists and ban spyware in the European Media Freedom Act

French Administrative Supreme Court illegitimately buries the debate over internet censorship law

Battle lines drawn between citizens and internet giants in EU e-Privacy Regulation

Brussels up close – Experiences from the EDRi exchange programme

Booklet: Technological testing grounds, border tech is experimenting with people’s lives

Human Rights Groups Submit Complaint to European Ombudsman Calling for Investigation into EU Surveillance Aid

How Europol’s reform enables ‘NSA-style’ surveillance operations

The Digital Markets Act promises to free people from digital walled gardens

Tear down the tracking wall

The privacy movement and dissent: Art