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May 6, 2024 · Document pools | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards

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Together with thousands of protestors, EDRi has fought against mandatory upload filters in the Copyright Directive. Despite the Directive having been adopted, including the infamous Article 13 (now 17) that could lead to upload filters, the Directive allows for some flexibility to prevent the worst impacts on our freedom of expression.

June 8, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

Policing: Council of the European Union close to approving position on extended biometric data-sharing network

The Council of the European Union is close to reaching an agreement on its negotiating position on the 'Prüm II' Regulation, which would extend an existing police biometric data-sharing network to include facial images and offer the possibility for national authorities to open up their databases of "police records" for searches by other member states.

Technology, migration, and illness in the times of COVID-19

In our ongoing work on technology and migration, we examine the impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the rights of people on the move and the increasingly worrying use of surveillance technology and AI at the border and beyond.

People, not experiments: why cities must end biometric surveillance

We debated the use of facial recognition in cities with the policy makers and law enforcement officials who actually use it. The discussion got to the heart of EDRi’s warnings that biometric surveillance puts limits on everyone’s rights and freedoms, amplifies discrimination, and treats all of us as experimental test subjects. This techno-driven democratic vacuum must be stopped.

December 5, 2024 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

Dear Claire

With your decision to step down as EDRi's Executive Director in the summer of 2025, we celebrate your remarkable leadership during the past seven years. Your vision, resilience, and commitment to digital rights have shaped EDRi into the robust and well established network organisation it is today.

April 15, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects digital rights in the Balkans

Cases of arbitrary arrests, surveillance, phone tapping, privacy breaches and other digital rights violations have drastically increased in Central and Southeast Europe as governments started imposing emergency legislation to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.

December 6, 2023 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Spyware attack attempts on civil society in Serbia

On 30 October 2023, two members of civil society from Serbia received an alert from Apple that they were potential targets of state-sponsored technical attacks. They immediately contacted EDRi member SHARE Foundation after receiving the warning, in order to check if their devices were attacked by any known spyware. These were the first documented cases of attempted sophisticated spyware attacks known to us in Serbia.

February 27, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

New UK counter-terrorism law limits online freedoms

The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 became law in the United Kingdom (UK) in February, after passing through UK parliament with less debate than many had hoped, while Brexit dominated the political agenda. The new law is problematic in many ways, including the way in which it limits freedom of expression and access to […]

ENDitorial: Living as if being at an airport

The internet is starting to look more and more like an airport. Not only because of the ubiquitous surveillance, but also in the way that advertising is trying to steal our attention. Should we start working on a right to not be addressed?

December 14, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

EU watchdog finds European Commission failed to protect human rights from its surveillance aid to African countries

The European Ombudsman has found that the European Commission failed to take necessary measures to ensure the protection of human rights in the transfers of technology with potential surveillance capacity supported by its multi-billion Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.

Open letter: Mass surveillance and undermining encryption still on table in EU Council

Today, 17 April, EDRi, in a coalition with 50 civil society organisations and 26 individual experts, call on Member State representatives not to agree to the proposed EU Council position on the Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Regulation whilst so many critical issues remain.

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Policing: Council of the European Union close to approving position on extended biometric data-sharing network

Technology, migration, and illness in the times of COVID-19

People, not experiments: why cities must end biometric surveillance

Dear Claire

COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects digital rights in the Balkans

Spyware attack attempts on civil society in Serbia

New UK counter-terrorism law limits online freedoms

ENDitorial: Living as if being at an airport

EU watchdog finds European Commission failed to protect human rights from its surveillance aid to African countries

Open letter: Mass surveillance and undermining encryption still on table in EU Council