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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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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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March 11, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Stuck under a cloud of suspicion: Profiling in the EU

As facial recognition technologies are gradually rolled out in police departments across Europe, anti-racism groups blow the whistle on the discriminatory over-policing of racialised communities linked to the increasing use of new technologies by law enforcement agents.

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March 11, 2004

Proposal EU Parliament to reject PNR transfer

The European parliament’s committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs is preparing to vote on a proposal by MEP Johanna Boogerd-Quaak to reject the draft decision of the EU Commission under which airline passenger data are transferred to the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. The proposal calls upon EU Member […]

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March 11, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Germany: Invading refugees’ phones – security or population control?

In its new study, EDRi member Society for Civil Rights (GFF) examines how German authorities sniff out refugees’ phones. The aim of “data carrier evaluation” is supposed to be determining a person’s identity and their country of origin. However, in reality, it violates refugees’ rights and does not produce any meaningful results.

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July 19, 2006

Dutch court rules for protecting file-sharers' identities

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a verdict on 13 July 2006, the court of appeals in Amsterdam upheld a lower court ruling about the question whether Internet service providers (ISPs) have an obligation to hand over a user’s identity when accused of illegal uploading by copyright holders. The lower court had […]

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December 5, 2012

International coalition calls for withdrawal of Dutch hacking plans

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Internationale Koalition fordert Rücknahme der Hacking-Pläne | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.23_Niederlande_Internationale_Koalition_fordert_Ruecknahme_der_Hacking-Plaene?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121205] An international coalition of more than 40 civil rights organizations and security experts have expressed their “grave concerns” about a Dutch proposal to break into foreign computers and search and delete data. In a letter handed over to the […]

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October 24, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Last-ditch attack on e-Privacy Regulation in the European Parliament

The ECR, the right-wing, Eurosceptic political group in the European Parliament has joined forces with German Conservatives, Axel Voss and Monika Hohlmeier, as well as the Danish Liberal Morten Løkkegaard to try to overturn progress made on the e-Privacy Regulation. The Regulation applies to confidentiality of communications, online and offline tracking and device security. It […]

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