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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

European Commission must uphold privacy, security and free expression by withdrawing new law, say civil society

In May, the European Commission proposed a new law: the CSA Regulation. If passed, this law would turn the internet into a space that is dangerous for everyone’s privacy, security and free expression. EDRi is one of 134 organisations calling instead for tailored, effective, rights-compliant and technically-feasible alternatives to tackle this grave issue.

No faces left to hack: #ReclaimYourFace Now!

We cannot let power-hungry and profit-orientated technologies manipulate our future, take away our dignity and treat us like walking, breathing barcodes. We have the right to exercise our autonomy and self-determination free from abusive practices undermining our agency. The Reclaim Your Face’s ECI empowers Europeans to move and shape the public debate on the use of these AI-powered biometric technologies. The EU has the chance to show that people sit at the center of its values, by taking the lead to ban biometric mass surveillance that endangers our freedoms, democracies and futures.

June 2, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Human rights groups win European Court of Human Rights claim on UK mass surveillance regime

Eight year legal battle against UK mass surveillance programmes exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden culminates in victory for privacy. EDRi's member Privacy International worked actively to make this happen.

February 7, 2018 · Blogs | On the ground | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Chaos Communication Congress 2017

The 34th annual four-day hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress (34c3), organised by EDRi member Chaos Computer Club, took place in Leipzig, Germany on 27-30 December 2017. The congress offered lectures, workshops and other events on various topics related to information technology and its effects on the society. For the first time, we also organised an […]

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

Police plans for the “future of travel” are for “a future with even more surveillance”

Plans hatched by Europol and Frontex to develop a “European System for Traveller Screening” that would require massive data processing and automated profiling have been condemned as ushering in “a future with even more surveillance” by German left MEP Cornelia Ernst, who told Statewatch that “the daily lives of millions of people” should not be shaped by “agencies that long ceased to be controllable by the public and the parliament.”

Retrospective facial recognition surveillance conceals human rights abuses in plain sight

Following the burglary of a French logistics company in 2019, facial recognition technology (FRT) was used on security camera footage of the incident in an attempt to identify the perpetrators. In this case, the FRT system listed two hundred people as potential suspects. From this list, the police singled out ‘Mr H’ and charged him with the theft, despite a lack of physical evidence to connect him to the crime. The judge decided to rely on this notoriously discriminatory technology, sentencing Mr H to 18 months in prison.

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Huawei captures Balkan’s hearts and minds

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

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

COVID-19 & Digital Rights: Document Pool

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

Privatised municipal surveillance on the stage of security theatre in Slovenia

European Commission must uphold privacy, security and free expression by withdrawing new law, say civil society

No faces left to hack: #ReclaimYourFace Now!

Human rights groups win European Court of Human Rights claim on UK mass surveillance regime

Chaos Communication Congress 2017

Police plans for the “future of travel” are for “a future with even more surveillance”

Retrospective facial recognition surveillance conceals human rights abuses in plain sight