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October 20, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Surveillance and data retention

The EU Parliament Took a Stance Against AI Mass Surveillance: What are the Global Implications?

The European Parliament's resolution on artificial intelligence in criminal law and its use by the police presents an opportunity for the EU to reconsider its role in the development of such tools, their sale, or use as part of its counter-terrorism and anti-immigration policies abroad.

October 24, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality

Unpacking digital fairness: What Europe must do now to end the tech industry’s most nefarious tactics

The EU plans to propose a Digital Fairness Act to better protect consumers from deceptive design practices, social media addiction, and pervasive online tracking. We unpack what this means and what the European Commission should do to end Big Tech’s most nefarious tactics.

Smashing the law without breaking it: A Commission guide

How to create a general monitoring obligation without creating a general monitoring obligation? That is the question that the Commission has been trying to answer with the Article 13 of its “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market”. It aims at solving the issue of a so-called “value gap”, that is […]

Why COVID-19 is a Crisis for Digital Rights

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an equally urgent digital rights crisis. New measures being hurried in to curb the spread of the virus, from “biosurveillance” and online tracking to censorship, are potentially as world-changing as the disease itself.

Q&A: PI case – UK High Court judgment on general warrants and government hacking explained

EDRi member Privacy International (PI) explain in some detail what their case involving UK intelligence services using general warrants is about.

Why EU needs to be wary that AI will increase racial profiling

Central to predictive policing systems is the notion that risk and crime can be objectively and accurately forecasted. Not only is this presumption flawed, it demonstrates a growing commitment to the idea that data can and should be used to quantify, track and predict human behaviour. The increased use of such systems is part of a growing ideology that social issues can be solved by allocating more power, resources - and now technologies - to police.

October 28, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

D3 opposes Portuguese efforts to make COVID app mandatory

In this post, EDRi's member Defesa dos Direitos Digitais (D3) discusses the proposed law on making the tracing app “Stayaway Covid” obligatory in Portugal and analyses the consequences of such legislation.

April 6, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

The Clearview/Ukraine partnership – How surveillance companies exploit war

Clearview announced it will offer its surveillance tech to Ukraine. It seems no human tragedy is off-limits to surveillance companies looking to sanitise their image.

Joint statement on the future of the CSA Regulation

On 1 July, EDRi and 47 civil society organisations sent a joint statement to the Hungarian Council Presidency and a number of member state permanent representatives. We call on the Council and European Parliament to demand that the European Commission withdraw the draft CSA Regulation.

February 7, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Germany: Constitutional complaint against intelligence agency BND

EDRi observer Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) has filed a constitutional complaint against surveillance by Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). A new law that the German Parliament passed in October 2016 allows the BND to spy on foreign journalists. This destroys trust between journalists and their sources precisely in places where investigative journalism is […]

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

Will the Brussels spyware scandal finally convince the EU to act?

In February, Brussels was rocked by reports of phone hacking and spyware attacks on members of the European Parliament’s defence and security committee. Such intrusions are a huge threat to EU democracy — interfering with decision-making and allowing obstructive disruptions to public debate. Three weeks on, nothing seems to have changed with the EU’s approach to spyware.

EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation Could Curtail Freedom of Expression across Europe

Counter-terrorism laws that have continued to pile up in the past years in Europe have constantly eroded the rule of law and reinforced executive powers of the state to the detriment of judicial oversight.

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The EU Parliament Took a Stance Against AI Mass Surveillance: What are the Global Implications?

Unpacking digital fairness: What Europe must do now to end the tech industry’s most nefarious tactics

Smashing the law without breaking it: A Commission guide

Why COVID-19 is a Crisis for Digital Rights

Q&A: PI case – UK High Court judgment on general warrants and government hacking explained

Why EU needs to be wary that AI will increase racial profiling

D3 opposes Portuguese efforts to make COVID app mandatory

The Clearview/Ukraine partnership – How surveillance companies exploit war

Joint statement on the future of the CSA Regulation

Germany: Constitutional complaint against intelligence agency BND

Will the Brussels spyware scandal finally convince the EU to act?

EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation Could Curtail Freedom of Expression across Europe