coronavirus

April 15, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics

Technology, migration, and illness in the times of COVID-19

In our ongoing work on technology and migration, we examine the impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the rights of people on the move and the increasingly worrying use of surveillance technology and AI at the border and beyond.

April 15, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects digital rights in the Balkans

Cases of arbitrary arrests, surveillance, phone tapping, privacy breaches and other digital rights violations have drastically increased in Central and Southeast Europe as governments started imposing emergency legislation to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.

April 1, 2020 · Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Press Release: EDRi calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19

March 20, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Disinformation and electoral interference

EDRi calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19

Some of the actions taken by governments and businesses under exceptional Coronavirus circumstances today, can have significant repercussions on freedom of expression, privacy and other human rights both today and tomorrow.