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September 10, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Upload filters? Still no, thanks

Together with thousands of protestors, EDRi has fought against mandatory upload filters in the Copyright Directive. Despite the Directive having been adopted, including the infamous Article 13 (now 17) that could lead to upload filters, the Directive allows for some flexibility to prevent the worst impacts on our freedom of expression.

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June 8, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

Policing: Council of the European Union close to approving position on extended biometric data-sharing network

The Council of the European Union is close to reaching an agreement on its negotiating position on the 'Prüm II' Regulation, which would extend an existing police biometric data-sharing network to include facial images and offer the possibility for national authorities to open up their databases of "police records" for searches by other member states.

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September 24, 2008

European Competition Commissioner: We investigate Google-Yahoo deal

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google announced in June that it had struck a deal with Yahoo, so it would sell ads on Yahoo website in return for a share of the profits. The EU anti-competition authorities confirms that they are investigating the deal between the two majors in the online advertising. […]

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February 2, 2013 · Blogs

CEO Coalition – the blind leading the bland

After a year of working group meetings, the “CEO Coalition to make the Internet a better place for kids” produces its final documents on 4 February. The outcome of the project is a set of voluntary guidelines divided into five broad headings, ranging from “reporting tools” to “notice and takedown,” It is intended that this […]

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February 1, 2012

ENDitorial: EDRi's initial comments on the Data Protection Regulation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Erste EDRi-Stellungnahme zur Datenschutzverordnung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.2_ENDitorial_Erste_EDRi-Stellungnahme_zur_Datenschutzverordnung] EDRi welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a new data protection Regulation. Europe needs a comprehensive reform in order to ensure the protection of its citizens’ personal data and privacy, while enhancing legal certainty and competitiveness in a single digital market. […]

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April 15, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Cross border access to data | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Technology, migration, and illness in the times of COVID-19

In our ongoing work on technology and migration, we examine the impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the rights of people on the move and the increasingly worrying use of surveillance technology and AI at the border and beyond.

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October 8, 2008

The European Parliament voted the Telecoms Package

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Package of rules governing the Internet and telecoms sectors proposed by the European Commission in view of supporting competition and providing clearer information and a wider range of services to consumers was approved by the European Parliament on 24 September 2008, in the first reading. The […]

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February 11, 2013 · Blogs

Lobby groups take CTRL+V of data protection proposal

From Wired to the New York Times, every news platform has been reporting about the massive lobbying efforts against the data protection reform over the past few months. Vice-President of the EU Commission Viviane Reding has stated in the Telegraph that the proposed rules were subject to the most aggressive lobbying she has ever witnessed. […]

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August 4, 2004

Swiss protest against new personal identification number

The Swiss data protection authorities and several political parties have used a governmental consultation round to protest against a proposal to introduce a new sectoral ID number for persons, the SPIN law. According to the privacy authorities, the proposed law violates both constitutional and data protection principles. The new personal identification number would be sectoral […]

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October 14, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

People, not experiments: why cities must end biometric surveillance

We debated the use of facial recognition in cities with the policy makers and law enforcement officials who actually use it. The discussion got to the heart of EDRi’s warnings that biometric surveillance puts limits on everyone’s rights and freedoms, amplifies discrimination, and treats all of us as experimental test subjects. This techno-driven democratic vacuum must be stopped.

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April 15, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects digital rights in the Balkans

Cases of arbitrary arrests, surveillance, phone tapping, privacy breaches and other digital rights violations have drastically increased in Central and Southeast Europe as governments started imposing emergency legislation to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.

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March 1, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Inclusive technologies | Online tracking industry / AdTech

Czech online state services without Google Analytics: thanks to IuRe

The Czech organisation Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) sent an open letter to the Ministry of Health in June 2021. It was mainly about the vaccination system, but its impact is much bigger: many state websites are getting rid of Google Analytics and thus taking more account of user privacy.

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