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August 3, 2021 · Blogs | Just and open internet and technologies | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Surveillance and data retention

EDRi submits response to the European Commission AI adoption consultation

Today, 3rd of August 2021, European Digital Rights (EDRi) submitted its response to the European Commission’s adoption consultation on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA).

April 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Computers are binary, people are not: how AI systems undermine LGBTQ identity

Companies and governments are already using AI systems to make decisions that lead to discrimination. When police or government officials rely on them to determine who they should watch, interrogate, or arrest — or even “predict” who will violate the law in the future — there are serious and sometimes fatal consequences. EDRi's member Access Now explain how AI can automate LGBTQ oppression.

September 22, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Biometrics | Surveillance and data retention

Eurodac: Council seeks swift agreement on expanded migrant biometric database

The Slovenian Presidency of the Council is planning to accelerate negotiations on a vast expansion of the Eurodac database, which will hold sensitive data on millions of asylum seekers and migrants in an irregular situation, by 'delinking' the proposed rules from other EU asylum and migration laws under discussion.

April 14, 2026 · Blogs | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance

#PrivacyCamp25: Event summary

On 30 September 2025, policymakers, activists, human rights defenders and academics from Europe and beyond gathered in Brussels and online for Privacy Camp 2025. Together, we explored the theme Resilience and Resistance in Times of Deregulation and Authoritarianism.

February 24, 2021 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Shedding light on the DWP staff guide on conducting fraud investigations

In 2019, the UK Department for Work and Pensions published their two-part staff guide on conducting fraud investigations. Privacy International went through the 995 pages to understand how those investigations happen and how the DWP is surveilling benefits claimants suspected of fraud.

October 9, 2024 · Blogs | EDRi-gram | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Privacy and surveillance

EDRi-gram, 9 October 2024

Last week, we gathered with hundreds of EU decision-makers, Members of European Parliament, civil society representatives and journalists at the Tech and Society Summit in Brussels. As one of the 41 co-organisers of the Summit, we were inspired by the visionary ideas in the various panels, discussions and chat – all towards centering people, the planet and democracy in the EU tech agenda. Stay tuned for more highlights and recordings from the day. One of the main takeaway from the Summit was that systems of control and surveillance – which are becoming increasingly central to EU policies – will not make us safer. Nowhere is this more apparent than at Europe’s own borders where technology is being used to dehumanised migrants. Read the blog by Access Now’s Caterina Rodelli who travelled across Greece to see first-hand how this is happening. On a positive note, the infamous “Chat Control” proposal is dead and buried again – for now. And we have the Dutch to thank for this positive development! We have more details for you.

September 21, 2021 · Document pools | Information democracy and participation | Just and open internet and technologies | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Digital sustainability | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

Digital Dignity Document Pool

Digital technologies can have a profound effect on our societies, but sufficient attention is rarely given to how certain applications differentiate between, target and experiment on communities at the margins. This document pool gathers resources for those that are interested in learning about and contesting the harms to dignity and equality that arise from uses of technology and data.

October 3, 2023 · Blogs | Privacy and surveillance | Data protection standards | Profiling practices

Event summary: Encryption in the age of surveillance

The EDRi-organised event on encryption, surveillance, and privacy brought together key policymakers, academics, activists and members of the press to build a better understanding of why encryption is important for people and democracy.

March 27, 2020 · Open letters | Privacy and surveillance | Cross border access to data | Freedom of expression online | Privacy and confidentiality

Open letter: Civil society urges Member States to respect the principles of the law in Terrorist Content Online Regulation

On 27 March 2020, European Digital Rights (EDRi) and 12 of its member organisations sent an open letter to representatives of Member States in the Council of the EU. In the letter, we voice our deep concern over the proposed legislation on the regulation of terrorist content online and what we view as serious potential threats to fundamental rights of privacy, freedom of expression, etc.

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

The urgent need to #reclaimyourface

The rise of automated video surveillance is often touted as a quick, easy, and efficient solution to complex societal problems. In reality, roll-outs of facial recognition and other biometric mass surveillance tools constitute a systematic invasion into people’s fundamental rights to privacy and data protection. Like with uses of toxic chemicals, these toxic uses of biometric surveillance technologies need to be banned across Europe.

Decolonising digital rights

European Digital Rights (EDRi) and its partner Digital Freedom Fund (DFF) initiated the decolonising digital rights initiative in 2020, which aims to design a process to develop a decolonising program for the digital rights field in Europe.

October 12, 2021

CPDP Conferences: Computers, Privacy & Data Protection

As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world in Brussels, offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends. This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.