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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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

January 31, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Secret negotiations about Europol: the big rule of law scandal

In negotiations held behind closed doors, the Council of Member States and the European Parliament are about to torpedo all the efforts of the European data protection watchdog’s to hold Europol accountable for its illegal data practices.

July 16, 2008

Privacy complaints related to Google's Street View

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Privacy International has complained to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) against Google’s Street View cars, which grab real photographs of streets and people, that get loaded into Google Maps. Street View distinctive cars have been recently spotted on London. The system allows Google’s users to view 360 […]

June 2, 2004

PNR data deal signed by European Commission

An international agreement was signed on 28 May between the European Union and the United States that makes it possible to transfer air passenger data to the US, under certain conditions. It entered into force immediately. This agreement goes hand-in-hand with the Decision adopted two weeks ago by the European Commission, establishing the adequacy of […]

February 12, 2020 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

PI and Liberty submit a new legal challenge against MI5

November 15, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Information democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi urges Portugal government to oppose proposed video surveillance law

EDRi member and Reclaim Your Face lead organisation D3 (Defesa Dos Direitos Digitais) are raising awareness of how the Portuguese government’s new proposed video surveillance and facial recognition law – which Ministers are trying to rush through the Parliament - amounts to illiberal biometric mass surveillance. It also endangers the very foundations of democracy on which the Republic of Portugal rests.

December 14, 2011

Brief overview of the leaked EU Data Protection Regulation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein Überblick über die geleakte EU-Datenschutzverordnung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Ein_Ueberblick_ueber_die_geleakte_EU-Datenschutzverordnung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Last week, Europe was able to get a first glance at the “General Data Protection Regulation” thanks to a leak by Statewatch. It is due to be officially published on 25 January 2012 and will repeal the outdated Data Protection […]