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August 26, 2025 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Denmark wants to break the Council deadlock on the CSA Regulation, but are they genuinely trying?

Denmark made the widely-criticised CSA Regulation a priority on the very first day of their Council presidency, but show little willingness to actually find a compromise that will break the three-year long deadlock on this law. The Danish text recycles previous failed attempts and does nothing to assuage the valid concerns about mass surveillance and encryption. Not only is Denmark unlikely to be able to broker a deal, it also stands in the way of EU countries finding an alternative, meaningful, rights-respecting solution to tackling CSA online.

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May 28, 2026 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Surveillance and data retention

Inside Italy’s low-cost spyware economy

Commercial spyware in Europe has recently made headlines with the now notorious names of Pegasus and Graphite, the expensive, exploitation-driven products at the top end of the market. Much less known is the wide underworld ecosystem of low-cost spyware vendors, often targeting citizens via their smartphones. EDRi member Osservatorio Nessuno has investigated and analysed two separate products, Spyrtacus and Morpheus.

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February 9, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Chat control: 10 principles to defend children in the digital age

The automated scanning of everyone’s private communications, all of the time, constitutes a disproportionate interference with the very essence of the fundamental right to privacy. It can constitute a form of undemocratic mass surveillance, and can have severe and unjustified repercussions on many other fundamental rights and freedoms, too.

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October 16, 2023

EDPS Seminar on the CSAM Proposal: “The Point of No Return?”

On 23 October from 13:00 to 15:00 CET, in the European Parliament in Brussels, room SPAAK 6B1 and online, the EDPS organises a seminar dedicated to the ongoing legislative works on the European Commission’s Regulation Proposal on Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

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May 11, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | 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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February 2, 2022 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Inclusive technologies

Digital Dissidents will introduce those who do not use technology

Czech digital legal organisation and an EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) organised the Big Brother Film Festival in Prague a few months ago, at the end of 2021. Thanks to a collaboration with the Kinolab group and director Barbora Johansson, a movie was created in connection to the festival, which deals with the topics of the digital gap and digital exclusion.

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January 8, 2025 · Document pools | Privacy and surveillance | 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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January 25, 2021

Balancing Trust and Safety in an Encrypted World

Stanford Internet Observatory Workshop Series organises a series of workshops on end-to-end encryption.

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April 6, 2022

BigBrotherAwards 2022

Join the German BigBrotherAwards 2022 to learn who the biggest data sinners of the last year are.

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October 6, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Celebrating a strong European Parliament stance on AI in law enforcement

On 5 October, following a significant push from across civil society, the European Parliament voted to adopt an important new report on Artificial intelligence in criminal law and its use by the police and judicial authorities in criminal matters by a promising majority of 377 votes in favour, to 248 against. This followed a tense vote earlier as a majority of MEPs opposed all four attempts from the European People's Party (EPP) to remove key fundamental rights provisions from the report.

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June 2, 2021 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy and participation | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

New win against biometric mass surveillance in Germany

In November 2020, reporters at Netzpolitik.org revealed that the city of Karlsruhe wanted to establish a smart video surveillance system in the city centre. The plan involved an AI system that would analyse the behaviour of passers-by and automatically identify conspicuous behaviour. After the intervention of EDRi-member CCC the project was buried in May 2021.

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June 30, 2021 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy and participation | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

The #PaperBagSociety challenge

The #PaperBagSociety is a social media challenge part of the #ReclaimYourFace campaign that invites everyone to share online the impact of living life with a paperbag on the head. With it, we aim to raise awareness of how ridiculous is to avoid facial recognition technologies in public spaces and why we need to build an alternative future, free from biometric mass surveillance.

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