Results for node/retention

September 13, 2006

License to hack: domestic Internet intelligence powers growing in Germany

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz) in the German state of North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) will be allowed to hack into the computers of terrosist suspects, if a bill currently under discussion in the state parliament is adopted. According to the bill, the agency will get the new competence […]

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March 23, 2011

The Privacy Platform Meeting: Reding outlines the way forward

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Privacy Platform Meeting: Kommissarin Reding skizziert den Weg | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.6_Privacy_Platform_Meeting] On 16 March 2011, Sophie In’t Veld’s Privacy Platform met in the European Parliament to discuss the state of play for the review of the data protection directive. The cross-party meeting was co-chaired by EU Parliament members from […]

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June 17, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Hooray! Bits of Freedom freed the data of millions of people from the clutches of the secret services!

The Complaints Department of the Review Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD), the Dutch supervisor of the secret services, ruled that EDRi member Bits of Freedom is right!

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March 19, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Written submission: Civil society shows evidence gaps in “Going Dark” group proposal for access to data for law enforcement

On 28 February 2024, EDRi and its members submitted written comments on the work of the High-Level Group (HLG) on “access to data for effective law enforcement". This HLG was set up under the Swedish Presidency of the Council in 2023 to allegedly find solutions to law enforcement ‘modern challenges’ in the digital era.

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November 22, 2006

Logging of IP addresses banned in Germany

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 January 2006, the District Court of Darmstadt (Germany) ruled that the German ISP T-Online was legally banned from logging the session IP addresses it assigned to its customers. German law requires this data to be deleted upon termination of the connection as it is not […]

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January 13, 2015 · Blogs

Privacy Camp: Big data and ever increasing state surveillance

As every year, EDRi is co-organising a privacy camp for civil society as a warm-up event for the CPDP conference. The event will discuss big data and every increasing state surveillance and the sessions will focus on privacy and data protection challenges and possibilities in Europe. It will take place on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 […]

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December 5, 2005

Urgency procedure for draft French anti-terrorism law

The French government has decided to apply the urgency procedure to a new anti-terrorism draft law, with only one reading by each Chamber. The draft law was already passed by the National Assembly (French Lower House) on 29 November 2005 and will be examined by the French Senate in late December or early January 2006. […]

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December 5, 2005

Launch of Digital Rights Ireland

Digital Rights Ireland will formally launch at a press conference in the Conference Room in Pearse Street Library, at 11-am on Tuesday 6 December. The group has been formed to defend civil, human and legal rights in a digital age. Digital Rights Ireland will be discussing its mission, and current developments in relation to Data […]

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March 23, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Surveillance and data retention

EU AI Act needs clear safeguards for AI systems for military and national security purposes

EDRi affiliate ECNL presents the second set of their proposals on exemptions and exclusions of AI used for military and national security purposes from the AIA, also endorsed by European Digital Rights (EDRi), Access Now, AlgorithmWatch, ARTICLE 19, Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Panoptykon Foundation. 

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February 10, 2021 · Blogs

Member in the Spotlight: Digitalcourage

Digitalcourage advocates for fundamental rights, privacy and protecting personal data. It wants to shape technology and politics with a focus on human dignity. It works against a society that turns people into targets for marketing, regards them as dispensable in times of a shrinking state, and places them under suspicion as potential terrorists.

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April 5, 2017 · Blogs

Denmark: Weakening the oversight of intelligence services

A draft law to amend the data protection provisions of the law on the oversight of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) was submitted for public consultation in September 2016. In their consultation responses, several NGOs including EDRi member IT-Pol Denmark, as well as the Danish Intelligence Oversight Board (TET) criticised the proposal. The […]

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February 6, 2014 · Blogs

We promise. What’s the point?

Maybe, after all of the noise about crazy ideas like “Clean IT” and ACTA, there won’t be any big digital rights files for the incoming European Parliament. Maybe we don’t need to worry about having parliamentarians who understand the internet and digital rights. Maybe there won’t be any relevant proposals anyway. Maybe we don’t need […]

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