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February 1, 2024

The European Digital and Media Literacy Conference

The European Digital and Media Literacy Conference in Brussels puts the many faces of digital and media literacy in the European spotlight during the Belgian EU presidency.

March 10, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy and participation | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

Google is leading the charge to replace third-party cookies with a new suite of technologies to target ads on the Web. And some of its proposals show that it hasn’t learned the right lessons from the ongoing backlash to the surveillance business model. In this post, EDRi's member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will focus on one of those proposals, Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), which is perhaps the most ambitious—and potentially the most harmful. 

February 1, 2023 · Blogs | Campaigns | Privacy and surveillance | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices

Member States want internet service providers to do the impossible in the fight against child sexual abuse

In May 2022, the European Commission presented its proposal for a Regulation to combat child sexual abuse (CSA) online. The proposal contains a number of privacy intrusive provisions, including obligations for platforms to indiscriminately scan the private communications of all users (dubbed ”chat control”). There are also blocking obligations for internet services providers (ISPs), which is the focus of this article.

October 4, 2021 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi and 41 human rights organisations call on the European Parliament to reject amendments to AI and criminal law report

EDRi and 41 human rights organisations* call on the members of the European Parliament to vote against the new amendments, which enable discriminatory predictive policing and biometric mass surveillance.

March 18, 2026 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI)

Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality

Whatever you think about the promises or perils of AI, it’s becoming increasingly impossible to ignore that these tools are beset by glaring security vulnerabilities. From exposing user data to facilitating hacks, from undermining information integrity to creating supply chain vulnerabilities, AI tools are underpinned, and undermined, by dodgy security practices. As we’ll explore in this series, this has grave consequences for the confidentiality of our data, for information integrity, and for access to and availability of systems — all problems that a human rights-respecting approach can help solve.

May 25, 2022 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Disinformation and electoral interference

European perspectives: Fight against disinformation by improving standards in journalism and empowering citizens

Disinformation cannot be suppressed by only regulation and laws, it is necessary to empower the media and journalists, invest in quality and independent journalism, as well as in democratic political culture, media literacy and digital literacy of the EU citizens, concluded the Gong conference “European Perspectives: Impact of Disinformation on Health” Democracy and the Digital Environment”.

December 12, 2023 · Blogs

Transitioning from 9 years of EDRi policy work

On 12 January 2024, I will step down as EDRi’s Head of Policy after 9 years dedicated to the protection of human rights in the digital age.

January 27, 2023

Psychosocial Circles Now Open!

Team CommUNITY is happy to announce the Spring enrollment of three psychosocial “circles” - a series of weekly virtual private gatherings, led by mental health professionals, that provide digital rights defenders with the opportunity to process experiences and emotions, while learning adaptive coping mechanisms, and connecting with others facing similar challenges.

April 2, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | 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.

Privacy policy

July 16, 2026 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance

EDRi-gram, 16 July 2026

What has the EDRi network been up to over the past few weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: Turning up the heat – Commission backs social media bans, Apple held accountable, summer to-dos, & more!

February 2, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | 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.