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February 6, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Surveillance and data retention

Automated data exchange in Prüm II: The EU’s securitisation mindset keeps encroaching on our fundamental rights

The agreement on automated data exchange for police cooperation, known as ‘Prüm II aligns with a broader EU trend of laws prioritising national security over human rights. The final text of this regulation has insufficient fundamental rights safeguards and could even encourage more member states to adopt facial recognition technology. The EU Parliament must reject the current Prüm II Regulation in the upcoming plenary vote.

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March 15, 2021 · Blogs | Highlights | Information democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

116 MEPs agree – we need AI red lines to put people over profit

In light of the upcoming proposal for the regulation of artificial intelligence in Europe, 116 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have written to the European Commission’s leaders in support of EDRi’s letter calling for red lines on uses of AI that compromise fundamental rights.

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April 20, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Europol’s reform: A future data black hole in European policing

The European Parliament is soon due to vote on the powers expansion of the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol. Civil society has been extremely critical of Europol’s mandate revision, raising many concerns with regards to the lack of fundamental rights protections and policymakers’ blind and absolute trust in how the agency will use its new powers. All the more reasons to be worried: the result of the trilogue negotiations with the Council of the EU made it even worse.

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November 20, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Surveillance and data retention

Promises unkept: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework under fire

A decade after Snowden’s revelations — and despite the public outrage they sparked — surveillance and mass data collection continue under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), despite persistent privacy concerns. This shift reflects a reorientation of EU priorities toward economic and geopolitical interests, risking compromises on privacy and data protection.

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June 3, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Cross border access to data | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

UK data adequacy under scrutiny: civil society warns EU not to reward deregulation disguised as ‘simplification’

Civil society organisations, including EDRi and EDRi members Open Rights Group and Privacy International, are urging the European Commission not to re-adopt the UK’s data adequacy decisions without meaningful reform. The UK’s rollback of protections under the guise of ‘simplification’ puts the level of protection required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) case law at risk and exposes the Commission’s decisions to legal challenge.

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April 6, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Surveillance and data retention

Spying on couriers and AdTech using data from operators. We know the winners of the Czech Big Brother Awards

For the seventeenth time has the Czech NGO and EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) awarded Big Brother Awards to those who have been snooping the most into our privacy in the past year.

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May 11, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Private and secure communications attacked by European Commission’s latest proposal

On 11 May, the European Commission put forward a proposal for a ‘Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse’ to replace the interim legislation that EDRi fought against last year. In our immediate reaction, EDRi warned that the new proposal creates major risks for the privacy, security and integrity of private communications, not just in the EU, but globally. Here, we unpack a bit more about the legislative proposal, and why we are so concerned.

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January 27, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | On the ground | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

La Quadrature du Net asks for renewed support to challenge TERREG in France

In light of the European Parliament's vote on the Regulation to prevent the dissemination of said “terrorist content”, EDRi observer La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) sheds light on some of the most concerning provisions which have to be addressed before the final adoption of the regulation.

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May 5, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Initial wins in Italy just two months after the launch of Reclaim Your Face

Last week, the #ReclaimYourFace campaign reached two important milestones at the national level. On Friday April 16th the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) rejected the SARI Real Time facial recognition system acquired by the police saying that the system lacks a legal basis and, as designed, it would implement a form of mass surveillance.

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November 20, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Non-fitted devices in the UK Home Office’s surveillance arsenal: Investigating the technology behind GPS fingerprint scanners

Privacy International’s technical research on the so-called non-fitted devices (NFDs) used by the UK Home Office to track migrants shows that these devices are intrusive and stigmatising by design. The use of NFDs is an expansion beyond the use of GPS ankle tags of the UK’s surveillance of migrants who are on immigration bail and subject to electronic monitoring conditions.

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October 19, 2022 · Blogs | Campaigns | Highlights | Position papers | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Position paper: A safe internet for all – Upholding private and secure communications

Despite the importance of its goals, the European Union’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) will not only fail in its aims to protect young people, but it will also even harm those it wants to protect.

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October 5, 2023 · Document pools | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

CSA Regulation Document Pool

This document pool contains updates and resources on the EU's proposed 'Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse' (CSA Regulation)

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