Results for node/retention

January 21, 2016 · Blogs

Access Now, EDRi on data protection: “No Safe Harbour 2.0 without reform on both sides of the Atlantic”

On January 12, Estelle Massé, Policy Analyst at Access Now, and Joe McNamee, Executive Director at EDRi, were invited by the committee of EU data protection authorities – the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party – to discuss the aftermath of the Safe Harbour ruling. Read our full submission to the Article 29 Data Protection […]

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January 22, 2016 · Blogs

Mozilla’s Open Web Fellowship 2016: Join EDRi’s team!

Mozilla’s Open Web Fellows programme, which was launched in 2015, is an international programme designed to link developers, engineers, technologists and programmers with civil society organisations around the world to help protect the Internet. For this second year of the programme, EDRi is proud to be the among the first European organisations to be chosen […]

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January 25, 2017 · Blogs

Germany: Fighting the anti-whistleblower provision

EDRi observer Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte’s (GFF) most recent Constitutional Court case in Germany concerns an anti-whistleblowing provision threatening the freedom of the press. Part-time journalists and bloggers, as well as the legal or IT experts on which journalists rely, now risk a prison sentence of up to three years for handling “leaked” data.

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March 28, 2012

ENDitorial: European Parliament defends itself and democracy from ACTA

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Europäisches Parlament verteidigt sich und die Demokratie gegen ACTA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.6_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120328] The decision of this week of the European Parliament not to refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice was a decision which has ramifications far beyond the ACTA dossier itself. It is one which will […]

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February 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

How to Reclaim Your Face From Clearview AI

The Hamburg Data Protection Authority deemed Clearview AI’s biometric photo database illegal in the EU as a result of a complaint Matthias Marx, a member of the Chaos Computer Club (an EDRi member) filed.

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Dutch Parliament: Safety net for democratic freedoms or sleepnet?

Currently, Dutch parliament is doing everything they can to get a dragnet surveillance bill approved before the elections on 15 March 2017. If they succeed, soon the online communications of Dutch citizens can, on a massive scale, get caught up in the secret services’ dragnet. So what’s happened since the last time we reported to […]

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February 3, 2016 · Blogs

What’s behind the shield? Unspinning the “privacy shield” spin

If there is a deal, why was nothing published? It is standard practice from the European Commission. When an agreement is reached, the Commission launches a press release, but not the actual agreement. In this way, the Commission can control the amount of information available to journalists and the general public. It then launches the […]

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Belgium agrees on passenger controls of international rail traffic

Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom have agreed on new checks of passengers’ identities on international trains. The agreement was reached on 26 January 2017 in an informal meeting between the Ministers of the Interior and Ministers of Justice in Malta. The Belgian Minister of the Interior and Security Jan Jambon announced the […]

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April 4, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection

15 years of digital rights achievements

In 2018, EDRi turned 15! The entire network is proud to celebrate this anniversary and its digital rights victories.

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February 4, 2016 · Blogs

EDRi co-hosts the Privacy Camp, 26 January 2016

In the run up to CPDP conference in Brussels, civil society groups met at the fifth annual Privacy Camp to exchange views and develop new strategies. This year’s conference took place under the title “The Multiple Ways of (De/Self)-Regulation: What is at stake for Human Rights?” and included various panels and speakers from around the […]

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April 12, 2012 · Blogs

ACTA revival – MEP Gallo proposes meaningless compromise

Marielle Gallo MEP (EPP, France) has published her draft report (only in French for the moment) for the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). As one would expect, she is urging her colleagues to support ACTA. She is also launching the counter-strategy described in an article published on the EDRi website […]

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April 25, 2012

ACTA – if you think we've won, we've lost

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA – Wir sind noch lange nicht am Ziel | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_ACTA_Wir_sind_noch_lange_nicht_am_Ziel?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] Following the announcement of David Martin, the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in charge of the ACTA dossier in the European Parliament, that he will advise his colleagues to vote against the proposal, a widespread assumption […]

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