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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 surveillance | 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 surveillance | 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 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Privacy and surveillance | 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 | Op-eds | Privacy and surveillance | 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.

February 16, 2023 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Surveillance and data retention

EU to provide training on “covert techniques” to abusive police forces

The European Police College is to train a host of states with miserable human rights records on the use of “covert techniques in forensics and mobile telecommunications” and will provide “training activities related to cyber-attacks in order to build capacities for law enforcement, judicial authorities and other relevant bodies.”

March 29, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Unprecedented appearance by European Commissioner for Home Affairs, innovating on quicksand, and the cabinet vs. online confidentiality

Read through the most interesting developments at the intersection of human rights and technology from the Netherlands. This is the second update in this series.

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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

EU to provide training on “covert techniques” to abusive police forces

Unprecedented appearance by European Commissioner for Home Affairs, innovating on quicksand, and the cabinet vs. online confidentiality