Results for node/retention

November 7, 2012

Personal data revealed by Skype to a private company

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Skype gab personenbezogene Daten an privates Unternehmen weiter | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.21_Skype_gab_personenbezogene_Daten_an_privates_Unternehmen_weiter?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] A police file has recently revealed that, during a police investigation into the Anonymous-sanctioned cyberattacks on PayPal, the Dutch police has received personal data on a young Dutchman through an IT firm which, in its turn, received the […]

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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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May 25, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

Collective complaint against the Technopolice

Today, we have come to a point where the combination of these technologies creates a state of total surveillance in our streets:CCTV everywhere, enormous police databases, facial recognition and automated detection of behavior. In order to end stop this illegal mass surveillance, LQDN is launching a collective complaint against the French Ministry of the Interior. You will find the details of their argument and procedure on plainte.technopolice.fr (in French).

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July 2, 2008

The US-EU agreement on personal data exchange by law enforcement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As stated by the New York Times on 26 June 2008, the United States and the European Union are close to conclude an agreement allowing the exchange of personal data of their citizens, including credit card information, travel history and Internet browsing information in order to be […]

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July 2, 2008

ePrivacy Directive debated in the EP's Civil Liberties Committee

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 June 2008, the European Parliament’s Standing Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs asked for measures to correct the European Commission’s proposal to amend the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (called ePrivacy Directive). “We have introduced a few points directed towards better consumer […]

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October 5, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Dear MEPs: We need you to protect our privacy online!

They’re hip, they’re slick and they follow you everywhere. They know you like new shoes, playing tennis and tweeting at odd hours of the morning. Do you know what that says about your health, your relationships and your spending power? No? Well, the online companies do. They follow you everywhere you go online, they have […]

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November 21, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Greece: Clarifications sought on human rights impacts of iBorderCtrl

On 5 November 2018, EDRi observer Homo Digitalis filed a petition to the Greek Parliament about the pilot implementation of the iBorderCtrl project on the Greek border. The Minister in charge will have 25 days to reply to it.

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February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Equal access to the internet | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

The human rights impacts of migration control technologies

This is the first blogpost of a series on our new project which brings to the forefront the lived experiences of people on the move as they are impacted by technologies of migration control. The project, led by our Mozilla Fellow Petra Molnar, highlights the need to regulate the opaque technological experimentation documented in and […]

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March 24, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi challenges expansion of police surveillance via Prüm

The Prüm framework permits police forces of EU Member States to exchange DNA files, fingerprints, vehicle data via a decentralised system. The European Commission and the Council are pushing for a “Next Generation Prüm” in which facial images, firearms data, driving licenses, extracts of police records, data about third-country nationals and many additional types of data could be shared via the system.

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April 13, 2023 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Internal market MEPs wrestle with how to fix Commission’s CSAR proposal

The European Union’s proposed CSA Regulation (Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse) is one of the most controversial and misguided European internet laws that we at EDRi have seen. Whilst aiming to protect children, this proposed law from the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, would obliterate privacy, security and free expression for everyone online.

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October 13, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Europe’s governments win the Big Brother Awards 2017 for opening the pandora’s box of surveillance

On Friday 13 October, the annual Belgian Big Brother Awards – a negative prize for the worst privacy abuser of the year – took place in Brussels. The jury awarded the European trend of state hacking, European Digital Right’s (EDRi) nomination, the title of the ultimate privacy villain. The public voted Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) […]

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December 1, 2021 · Blogs | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance

The newly-agreed German government coalition has called for a Europe-wide ban on public facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. This echoes the core demands of the Reclaim Your Face campaign which EDRi has co-led since 2020, through which over 65 civil society groups ask the EU and their national governments to outlaw biometric data mass surveillance.

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