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May 30, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention

Belgium Constitutional Court decision on the concept of incitement to terrorism

On the 15 March, the Constitutional Court of Belgium issued judgement 31/2018 on the action for the annulment of the law of 3 August 2016 containing various provisions in the fight against terrorism.

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September 14, 2020 · Open letters | Privacy and surveillance | Cross border access to data | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi with 25 organisations urge Parliament to protect journalists, doctors, lawyers, social services

Together with a coalition of 25 organisations and companies, EDRi urges members of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) to include strong procedural safeguards in the so called “E-Evidence Regulation”.

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November 25, 2020 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

10,000 people demand a ban on biometric mass surveillance

Reclaim Your Face is a European movement to bring people’s voices into the discussion around the use of biometric data to monitor the population. Since its launch only two weeks ago, over 10,000 people have signed their support by adding their name to the call for transparency, red lines, and respect for humans in European uses of biometrics.

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July 6, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep

In the past few years, the pandemic and the shift to working from home have bolstered the use of remote surveillance software to monitor employees. In 2020, global demand for employee monitoring software increased 108 per cent by April and 70 per cent by May 2020 compared to pre-pandemic times. At the same time, search engine queries for "How to monitor employees working from home" increased by 1,705 per cent in April and 652 per cent in May 2020 compared to the previous year.

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July 16, 2026 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Surveillance and data retention

Proposed Europol reform dangerously erodes privacy, automates surveillance, and sidelines oversight

Third reform in six years allocates €3 billion to controversial EU policing agency with the capacities to place everyone under surveillance.

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September 24, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Is surveilling children really protecting them? Our concerns on the interim CSAM regulation

On 27 July, the European Commission published a Communication on an EU strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The Communication indicated several worrying measures that could have devastating effects for your privacy online. The first of these measures is out now.

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October 4, 2022 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Surveillance and data retention

“Take it personal, and don´t”: changing the decolonising process and letting ourselves be changed

This blog reviews the decolonising process so far and what we've been upto since our last communication, shared in December last year. It adds detail to how we are organising, shifting, and re-orienting the iterative and complex needs of a decolonising process.

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August 21, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

16 countries burned Poland’s bridges on the CSA Regulation: What now?

Poland’s surprising compromise to ease the deadlock on the CSA Regulation – which has been stuck in the Council of EU Member States for the past three years – met with failure. This blog recaps the Polish compromise, the positions of the Member States on the proposal, and what it could mean for the future of one of the most criticised EU laws of all time.

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October 29, 2026 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Platform regulation | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

What the new Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy means for workers – and what’s next for implementation

In June 2026, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) adopted a new Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy. Following in the footsteps of the EU’s Platform Work Directive, this Convention extends data protection rights for platform workers and contains innovative provisions to protect against the adverse effects of automated decision-making globally. But this is only the beginning. In this article, EDRi member Privacy International explores what’s next for ratification, implementation and the future of regulating worker surveillance in the EU and around the world.

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December 1, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Algorithmic persecution based on massive privacy violations used to justify human rights abuses, says new report

More than 13,000 Turkish military personnel have been dismissed since July 2016 on the basis of an algorithm used by the authorities to assess the alleged “terrorist” credentials or connections of military officers and their relatives in violation of multiple human rights, says a new report published today by Statewatch.

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May 28, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Equal access to the internet | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Sweden further cracks down on sex workers: What it means for digital rights

Despite overwhelming opposition from civil society, academic experts, and sex workers, the Swedish Parliament voted to adopt a law that expand the criminalisation of sex work. This will have have a chilling effect nationally and internationally, and affect digital rights.

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November 14, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

“E-evidence”: Repairing the unrepairable

On 11 November 2019, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Birgit Sippel (S&D), Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) presented her draft Report, attempting to fix the many flaws of the European Commission’s “e-evidence” proposal. Has Sippel MEP been successful at repairing the unrepairable? The initial e-evidence proposal by […]

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