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April 22, 2015 · Blogs

New Danish PNR system will rival the EU PNR Directive

For the second time in the parliamentary year 2014-15, the Danish government has made a legislative proposal for increased access to Passenger Name Records (PNR). The draft law, currently in public consultation, also sheds new light on the use of PNR data by Danish customs authorities. So far, the PNR discussion in Europe has mainly […]

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March 28, 2007

ENDitorial – Are Transatlantic Data Protected?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) More questions than answers were produced by a full day of discussions, 26 March 2007, on Passenger Name Records (PNR), including a public seminar by the European Parliament LIBE committee on transfers of personal data to the U.S. (PNR, SWIFT, and “Safe Harbour”), as well as a […]

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May 25, 2016 · Blogs

EU Council & Commission plan to give law enforcement authorities access to data of foreign IT companies

EU Commissioner Věra Jourová revealed plans to increase the competences of criminal law enforcement authorities in a speech at the European Criminal Law Academic Network. She announced that the Council of the European Union is currently drafting Conclusions. This draft document calls for law enforcement agencies to have direct cross-border access to personal data held […]

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July 13, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Civil society calls for the protection of privacy in ePrivacy

On the 13th of July, EDRi, together with Privacy International, IT-Politisk Forening and Access Now sent a letter to the TELE Working Party of the EU Council regarding the dangers for privacy protections associated with the latest proposals brought forward by the Austrian Council Presidency. The letter comments the developments and argues that such changes […]

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April 8, 2014 · Blogs

European Court overturns EU mass surveillance law

The European Court of Justice today ruled that the EU legislation on mass surveillance contravenes European law. The case was brought before the Court by EDRi member Digital Rights Ireland, together with the Austrian Working Group on Data Retention. After eight years, this affront to the fundamental rights of European citizens has finally been declared […]

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June 13, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

High-Level Group “Going Dark” outcome: A mission failure

On 13 June, the Justice and Home Affairs Council, composed of EU Member States’ ministers of the Interior, will discuss the recommendations of the High-Level Group (HLG) on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement (“Going Dark”). This blogpost provides a short analysis of the HLG’s recommendations and a summary of its procedural flaws.

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December 22, 2010 · Blogs

Eight years of EDRi-gram

The first newsletter of EDRi-gram was published on 29 January 2003. Then we were talking about the EC copyright directive, data retention, software patents or governmental censorship on websites in Germany. The Whistleblowers were the Time’s Person of the Year announced in December 2002. The number of Internet users was approx 600 million in January […]

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September 23, 2015 · Blogs

Safe Harbor: European Court Advocate General says Agreement should be declared invalid

This morning, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in his Opinion on the “Safe Harbor” Agreement with the United States, advised the Court to declare the entire Agreement invalid. The catalyst for the case was the mass surveillance practices of the United States. Sixteen years ago, the EU […]

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February 20, 2024 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Mass surveillance and encryption backdoors have no future in Europe

Today, 20 February, in a public consultation at the European Commission, the EDRi network calls on EU lawmakers to end all attempts to normalise dangerous surveillance practices that rip people off their safety and privacy online.

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January 10, 2017 · Document pools

e-Privacy revision: Document pool

New devices are being continually developed that increasingly have the ability to connect to the internet and communicate between themselves. These devices, while making our life easier in many ways, also create major privacy and security risks. We explained in our series of blogposts on privacy the freedoms that are under threat, if these technologies are […]

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September 13, 2006 · Blogs

New EDRI members

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the EDRI General Assembly of 3 September 2006 in Berlin, Germany, EDRI welcomed 4 new members. Open Rights Group is a new UK independent, non-profit advocacy group, campaigning for the digital civil rights of British citizens. Alcei from Italy is an association of people dedicated to […]

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May 4, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

LIBE lead MEP fails to find silver bullet for CSA Regulation

On 19 April 2023, the lead MEP on the proposed CSA Regulation, Javier Zarzalejos (EPP), published his draft report. Whilst we agree with MEP Zarzalejos about putting privacy, safety and security by design at the heart, many of his changes may pose a greater risk to human rights online than the European Commission’s original text.

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