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

Dangerous by design: A cautionary tale about facial recognition

In this fifth and final installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we consider an experience of harm caused by fundamentally violatory biometric surveillance technology.

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January 28, 2009

Towards International Data Protection Standards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In October 2008, the 30th International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners in Strassbourg adopted a resolution on the urgent need for protecting privacy in a borderless world, and for reaching a Joint Proposal for setting International Standards on Privacy and Personal Data Protection. Following this […]

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November 30, 2011

EU-US summit joint statement ignores European civil rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-US Gipfel: Gemeinsame Erklärung missachtet Europäische Bürgerrechte | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_EU-US-Gipfel_Gemeinsame_Erklaerung_missachtet_Europaeische_Buergerrechte?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] A common statement issued at the EU-US summit that took place on 28 November 2011 at the White House in Washington included several aspects with direct impact on digital civil rights that shows the US have succeeded again in […]

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November 21, 2012

IE Domain Registry confirms hijacking of the DNS nameservers

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [IE Domain Registry bestätigt Angriff auf DNS Nameserver | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.22_IE_Domain_Registry_bestaetigt_Angriff_auf_DNS_Nameserver?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121107] On 9 October 2012, those who tried to visit Google.ie and Yahoo.ie were sent to an Indonesian webserver controlled by hackers. After having investigated the security incident, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) confirmed on November 2012 that unauthorised […]

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March 11, 2004

Austrian court demands control military snooping powers

The Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) has declared parts of the military power law (Militaerbefugnisgesetz, MBG) unconstitutional, in a decision dated 23 January 2004. The case was instigated by Social Democratic members of the Austrian Parliament. The decision does not repair all points that critics have raised. The military law was adopted in the year 2000 […]

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December 5, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Germany: New police law proposals threaten civil rights

The number of police laws in Germany has increased in recent months.

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October 3, 2024 · Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Dutch decision puts brakes on Chat Control

This controversial draft EU law has seen so many twists and turns that it’s giving us whiplash. Under renewed pressure from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, some lawmakers had hoped they could finally get enough support for the controversial bill this autumn. But following a vital last-minute decision by the Netherlands, we are safe from “Chat Control” – for now.

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July 5, 2006

Book launch on Human Rights in the Global Information Society

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new book on Human Rights in the Global Information Society, edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen (EDRI board member from Digital Rights DK) was presented 23 June 2006 in Copenhagen. In the book, a number of scholars, human rights activists and practitioners examine the links between information […]

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November 30, 2011

Two years into the Stockholm Programme: on the way to e-Fortress Europe?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Zwei Jahre Stockholm Programm: Europa auf dem Weg zu einer elektronischen Festung? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_Zwei_Jahre_Stockholmer_Programm_Europa_auf_dem_Weg_zu_einer_elektronischen_Festung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] It has been two years now since the Stockholm Programme – a 5-year plan for Justice and Home Affairs – was adopted. On 24 November 2011, an experts’ and activists’ round table, organised in […]

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March 11, 2004

Privacy-penalty for French Scientology critic

In France the owner of a website was convicted to pay a penalty of 450 Euro for publishing personal data without first registering with the Data Protection Authority, the CNIL. On 25 February the appeal-court of Lyon confirmed the earlier ruling, even though the judges decided to suspend payment of the penalty. Remarkably the website-owner, […]

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December 5, 2018 · On the ground | Information democracy | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi members in joint protest against “surveillance zone” in Saxony

A new proposal for a surveillance law in the German state of Saxony is threatening to lead to abhorrent consequences on a stretch of Germany’s international border.

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February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Double legality check in e-evidence: Bye bye “direct data requests”

After having tabled some 600 additional amendments, members of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) are still discussing the conditions under which law enforcement authorities in the EU should access data for their criminal investigations in cross-border cases. One of the key areas of debate is the involvement of a second authority in […]

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