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January 24, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

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?

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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.

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April 17, 2024 · Blogs | Campaigns | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

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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January 24, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

UN Security Council mandates worldwide air traveller profiling

In the name of “preventing, detecting and investigating terrorist offenses and related travel”, all United Nations (UN) Member States should develop systems for processing and analysing Passenger Name Record (PNR), Advance Passenger Information (API) and “fingerprints, photographs, facial recognition, and other relevant identifying biometric data”, according to a UN Security Council resolution (no. 2396) on […]

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April 15, 2020 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Control ©: defending free online communication through litigation

Former Member of the European Parliament Felix Reda has joined the EDRi member German Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights). The copyright reform activist will coordinate control ©, a new project to defend freedom of communication.

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October 14, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Germany asks what should the EU do about encryption for law enforcement?

On 22 September, Statewatch released a document issued by the German Presidency of the Council to help establish a common EU position on finding ways around encrypted communications for the needs of law enforcement.

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

Huawei captures Balkan’s hearts and minds

EDRi member Citizen D reveals Huawei's lobbying practices in Slovenia, where media outliets are siding with the Chinese tech company, whilst ignoring the company's human rights violations in China and the development of a city surveillance system in Belgrade.

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February 22, 2024 · Blogs | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Press Release: Brussels rocked by major spyware scandal: Urgent call for ban

Now, when push has come to shove, policymakers at the European Union (EU) must act to ban spyware in Europe. Yesterday, the media reported a major attack on EU democracy with members of the European Parliament Defense Committee being the target of phone hacking.

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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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May 4, 2020 · Document pools | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-19 & Digital Rights: Document Pool

Find in this EDRi doc pool all relevant articles and documents around the COVID-19 crisis and digital rights.

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

Legal challenge: The Serbian government attempts to digitise social security system

Organisations from across the world submit a joint legal opinion to support a Serbian NGO’s legal challenge to the Social Card law due to concerns over the right to privacy, the right to social security, and data protection.

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March 20, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Privatised municipal surveillance on the stage of security theatre in Slovenia

The municipality of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, wasted almost two years deflecting freedom of information requests (FOIAs) from EDRi member Državljan Dsfor the municipal CCTV system data in the city. The data, when finally provided, revealed the scale of ineffective security theatre paid for by Ljubljana’s citizens, and the need for a public debate about the use of this technology.

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