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September 8, 2021 · Highlights | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Intensified surveillance at EU borders: EURODAC reform needs a radical policy shift

In an open letter addressed to the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 34 organisations protecting the rights of people on the move, children and digital rights including European Digital Rights (EDRi) urge policymakers to radically change the direction of the EURODAC reform – the European Union (EU) database storing asylum seekers’ and migrants’ personal data - in order to respect fundamental rights and international law.

Poll: Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication – Press Release

According to the results of the survey, 80% of young people aged 13 to 17 years old from 13 EU Member States would not feel comfortable being politically active or exploring their sexuality if authorities were able to monitor their digital communication, in order to look for child sexual abuse.

November 25, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

New Protocol on cybercrime: cutting red tape ≠ cutting human rights safeguards

From 20 to 22 November 2019, European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took part in the Octopus Conference 2019 at the Council of Europe (CoE) to present the comments submitted by EFF, EDRi, IT-Pol Denmark and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on draft provisions of the Second Additional Protocol to […]

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

Surveilling Europe’s edges: when research legitimises border violence

In May 2024, EDRi member Access Now’s Caterina Rodelli travelled across Greece to meet with local civil society organisations supporting migrant people and monitoring human rights violations, and to see first-hand how and where surveillance technologies are deployed at Europe’s borders.

EU’s AI proposal must go further to prevent surveillance and discrimination

The European Commission has just launched the EU draft regulation on artificial intelligence (AI). AI systems are being increasingly used in all areas of life – to monitor us at protests, to identify us for access to health and public services, to make predictions about our behaviour or how much ‘risk’ we pose. Without clear safeguards, these systems could further the power imbalance between those who develop and use AI and those who are subject to them.

The slippery slope of COVID health passports

There is increasing talk of measures that allow or restrict passengers at the departure gate based on health data. Can you show proof of vaccination? Then you may pass. Do you have a recent, negative test result? Then you may enter. Are you unable or unwilling to show these? Then you are denied access. There’s an understandable rationale that underpins these scenarios: we want to create a safe environment. Yet it is also cause for great concern.

July 20, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Voluntary detection measures still on the table for the CSA Regulation

Whilst the draft EU CSA Regulation is intended to replace current voluntary scanning of people's communications with mandatory detection orders, lawmakers in the Council and Parliament are actively considering supplementing this with "voluntary detection orders". However, our analysis finds that voluntary measures would require a legal basis in the CSA Regulation, which would likely fall foul of the Court of Justice. Content warning: contains discussions of child sexual abuse and child sexual abuse material

Facial recognition and fundamental rights 101

This is the first post in a series about the fundamental rights impacts of facial recognition. Private companies and governments worldwide are already experimenting with facial recognition technology. Individuals, lawmakers, developers - and everyone in between - should be aware of the rise of facial recognition, and the risks it poses to rights to privacy, freedom, democracy and non-discrimination.

Online surveillance thrives when fear takes over

European law-enforcement agencies have been pushing to end encryption and survey everyone’s online communications.

September 27, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Czech police use facial recognition system, IuRe finds out details

EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium have details on the Czech police’s illegal use of a facial recognition system. The country’s data protection authorities were not consulted in advance on the system, which is being used for biometric identification

Can a COVID-19 face mask protect you from facial recognition technology too?

Mass facial recognition risks our collective futures and shapes us into fear-driven societies of suspicion. This got folks at EDRi and Privacy International brainstorming. Could the masks that we now wear to protect each other from Coronavirus also protect our anonymity, preventing the latest mass facial recognition systems from identifying us?

February 2, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Online Safety Bill: Kill Switch for Encryption

Of the many worrying provisions contained within the draft Online Safety Bill, perhaps the most consequential is contained within Chapter 4, at clauses 63-69. This section of the Bill hands OFCOM the power to issue “Use of Technology Notices” to search engines and social media companies.

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Intensified surveillance at EU borders: EURODAC reform needs a radical policy shift

Poll: Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication – Press Release

New Protocol on cybercrime: cutting red tape ≠ cutting human rights safeguards

Surveilling Europe’s edges: when research legitimises border violence

EU’s AI proposal must go further to prevent surveillance and discrimination

The slippery slope of COVID health passports

Voluntary detection measures still on the table for the CSA Regulation

Facial recognition and fundamental rights 101

Online surveillance thrives when fear takes over

Czech police use facial recognition system, IuRe finds out details

Can a COVID-19 face mask protect you from facial recognition technology too?

Online Safety Bill: Kill Switch for Encryption