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January 13, 2021 · Blogs | Campaigns | EDRi-gram | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Looking for a New Years’ Resolution? #ReclaimYourFace with our citizens’ initiative!

Since its launch just 2 months ago, the Reclaim Your Face campaign to ban biometric mass surveillance has gone from strength to strength. Already 23 organisations have joined the coalition, and almost 13,000 people have joined the movement – and this is only the beginning.

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April 6, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Fundamental Rights Agency report: The risks from biometrics and EU IT systems

On 27 March 2018, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) published a report entitled “Under watchful eyes: biometrics, EU IT systems and fundamental rights” . The report analyses the impact of technologies used for immigration and security purposes on the right to privacy and data protection.

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June 10, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-Tech: the sinister consequences of immunity passports

In EDRi’s series on COVID-19, COVIDTech, we explore the critical principles for protecting fundamental rights while curtailing the spread of the virus, as outlined in the EDRi network’s statement on the pandemic.

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July 6, 2026 · Open letters | Privacy and surveillance | Surveillance and data retention

Joint Statement: Pegasus in the European Parliament, the EU Must Act Now

A joint statement with civil society organisations and individual signatories is calling on the EU institutions to regulate spyware technologies after the 2026 Citizen Lab revelations.

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July 3, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Privacy and surveillance | Surveillance and data retention

EU worries over the possibility of losing wiretapping powers

5G telecoms networks could render obsolete the “lawful interception” techniques that police is traditionally using, unless the European Union and national governments take action. This was revealed in internal EU documents obtained by EDRi member Statewatch, that has published a new analysis explaining the issues and calling for a public debate. “It is unsurprising that […]

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December 9, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Looking back at digital rights in the era of a surveillance pandemic

2020 started as a year to build momentum to tackle various digital rights issues, including mass surveillance and freedom of expression online. Needless to say, the global pandemic disrupted not only these efforts but also our health, personal relations, basic survival needs and ways to organise around human rights. After 9 months of living and working in a pandemic, we look back at what we achieved and the ways forward from here.

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March 9, 2021 · Blogs | Publications | Information democracy and participation | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Booklet: Surveillance-based advertising: An industry broken by design and by default

Most online advertising today relies on huge amounts of personal data extracted from people without their knowledge. EDRi’s new guide book “Targeted Online” sheds light on this opaque data industry and explores how EU law should regulate it. This is the first blog post in a new series dedicated to the EU’s proposed Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.

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March 4, 2026 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Outsourcing crime control: How EU anti-money laundering rules threaten financial privacy

Privacy First is drawing attention to the risks to financial privacy and fundament rights arising from the European Union’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework. Over the past decade, the EU has increasingly shifted the responsibility of detecting financial crime from public authorities to banks, bookkeepers and other companies (called“obliged entities”). With a completely revised AML Package set to enter into force in mid-2027, this system will expand further, turning ordinary citizens and civil society organisations into subjects of systems of financial surveillance.

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May 7, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Cross border access to data | Digital rights in trade agreements | Surveillance and data retention

Digital trade: the new frontline in the fight for our rights

The EU is signing digital trade deals that could undermine fundamental rights and block oversight of software systems shaping our lives. From data protection to algorithmic accountability, these agreements risk empowering opaque systems - used by both companies and governments - at the expense of the people most affected by them.

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April 18, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Fighting for migrants’ data protection rights in the UK

Since 2014, the United Kingdon (UK) government has steadily rolled out policies to make the country a “hostile environment”  for migrants, in the words of Prime Minister Theresa May.

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June 24, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

The threat on OTF as a wake up call for European digital sovereignty

Around 2 billion people in 60 countries are able to use the internet securely and without risks of being surveilled or censored. And all of this, thanks to the work done by a non-profit called Open Tech Fund (OTF) for only 15 million dollars a year. However, all of this may be over soon.

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June 16, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Panoptykon ends campaign against uncontrolled surveillance reaching 3M people

1 out of 5 Poles are aware of the constantly growing powers of the Polish secret service. And this lack of knowledge from the public leaves the door open for further expansion of the powers of secret service authorities.

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