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June 7, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

EDRi’s leadership transition: Back to the future…

Challenges to digital rights will not decrease – on the contrary, the speed with which technology is integrating into every part of our lives is making it increasingly difficult to ensure that rights and freedoms are respected from the outset.

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May 4, 2016 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

The lobby-tomy 6: Not in my backyard

Something you’ll hear in policy debates on the environment: windmills are a great idea and obviously good for the environment, but we don’t want them in our backyard. This argument doesn’t just apply to the debate on the environment, but apparently also in the debate on privacy protection. Representatives from industry speak convincingly about what […]

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April 2, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

The Security Playbook

EDRi affiliate SUPERRR is challenging “Security Theater” as a societal maneuver.

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March 12, 2014 · Blogs

Internet censorship and surveillance in Turkey

The Turkish government recently passed a new law that will deepen the existing censorship and surveillance on the Internet. The new law is an amendment to Law #5651, an article of which has been previously condemned by European Court of Human Rights (Ahmet Yildirim vs. Turkish Government case where the Court ruled that Turkey had […]

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May 18, 2016 · Blogs

Big Brother Awards Germany 2016

The annual gala for the German Big Brother Awards (BBA), organised by EDRi member Digitalcourage, was held on 22 April 2016 in Bielefeld, Germany. English-language coverage of the event was stepped up this year. While English translations of most of the laudations have been available on the website in previous years, this year Digitalcourage’s interpreter […]

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July 17, 2013 · Blogs

Finland: A new citizens initiative – Lex Snowden

EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) has submitted on 8 July 2013, with support from Avoin Ministeriö, a citizens’ legislative initiative, titled “Yes We Can – The law for safeguarding of freedom of expression and privacy internationally”, to the Ministry of Justice. If the initiative collects 50 000 names (almost 1% of total population of […]

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May 6, 2015 · Blogs

Emotion tracking company gets funding from the European Commission

Realeyes is a London based start-up company that tracks people’s facial reactions through webcams and smartphones in order to analyse their emotions. The analysed data is used to help companies maximise the impact of their advertising and market research campaigns. The technology allows the companies to know how consumers feel when they view the video […]

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March 26, 2008

Big Brother Awards – France 2007

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 21 March 2008, Paris was the host of the French Big Brother awards ceremony for the year 2007. For the second time President Nicolas Sarkozy was excluded from the competition on grounds of “genetic predisposition” for attacks to personal life and freedoms. The jury has reached […]

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June 14, 2017 · Blogs

UN Rapporteur demands respect for freedom of expression online

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye has released a new report, which gives an overview of the problems for freedom of expression and opinion in the Telecommunications and Internet Access Sector. The report also provides general recommendations for states […]

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May 3, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Irish and French parliamentarians sound the alarm about EU’s CSA Regulation

The Irish parliament’s justice committee and the French Senate have become the latest voices to sound the alarm about the risk of general monitoring of people’s messages in the proposed Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Regulation.

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August 28, 2013 · Blogs

UK authorities press to get hold of Snowden affair’s documents

The echoes of the PRISM affair keep growing. On 21 August 2013, Secretary general Thorbjorn Jagland of the Council of Europe, addressed a letter to UK home secretary Theresa May asking for explanations regarding UK’s recent actions following the PRISM scandal. Jagland was especially referring to the retention at Heathrow airport, on 17 August 2013, […]

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June 1, 2016 · Blogs

Czech Republic: Non-transparent processing of sensitive health data

In the past weeks, both the Czech Parliament and the Senate gave their consent to the expansion of the National Health Information System. The system itself is comprised of registers which contain the health data of individuals, directly linked to their personal birth number. Aside from existing registers which typically have a specialised focus – […]

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