data protection

July 8, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Spain: Catalan government agrees to improve privacy in schools

The Catalan Department of Education has signed an agreement accepting the plan proposed by Xnet, EDRi member from Spain, titled “Privacy and Democratic Digitization of Educational Centers,” to guarantee the privacy of data and the democratic digitization of schools. The plan foresees the creation of a software-pack and protocols that ensure the educational establishments have alternatives to what until now seemed the only option: the technological dependence on Google and its attached elements, with worrying consequences on individual data.

July 1, 2020 · Highlights | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

EU must let its crown jewel shine: GDPR needs progress

On 24 June, the European Commission published the Communication reviewing of the two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The Communication received input from the multistakeholder expert group on the application of the GDPR, of which EDRi members Access Now and Privacy International belong to.

June 24, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Massive political data leak in Malta

After a massive leak of the voter’s list showing the voting preferences, addresses, phones and dates of birth of a majority of the Maltese population, EDRi member noyb.eu will assist the Daphne Foundation and Repubblika in their class action and file complaints about the data breach in various EU Member States.

June 24, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

COVID-Tech: COVID-19 opens the way for the use of police drones in Greece

In EDRi’s series on COVID-19, COVIDTech, we explore the critical principles for protecting fundamental rights while curtailing the spread of the virus, as outlined in the EDRi network’s statement on the pandemic.

June 10, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

SHARE’s campaign bears fruit: Google appoints Serbian representatives

Serbian citizens can now bring their objections and requests regarding Google’s use of their private data to the tech giant’s new representative in the country.

May 27, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Alternatives to dominant digital services

Competition law: Big Tech mergers, a dominance tool

This is the third article in a series dealing with competition law and Big Tech. The aim of the series is to look at what competition law has achieved when it comes to protecting our digital rights, where it has failed to deliver on its promises, and how to remedy this.

May 13, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Xnet issues two complaints to improve data protection in Spain

Xnet highlights gaps in Spain’s adaptation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Spanish member of EDRi has opened two complaints to the European Commission related to the lack of effective adaptation of the data minimisation principle and the lack of conciliation between personal data protection and freedom of expression and information in the Spanish legislation.

May 13, 2020 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Austria’s biggest privacy scandal: residential addresses made public

Nobody took data protection into account for the so-called “Supplementary Register for Other Concerned Parties” (Ergänzungsregister für sonstige Betroffene). The Ministry for the Economy and the Finance Ministry are responsible for a data breach to which the Austrian Economic Chambers were an accomplice.

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

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

Competition law: what to do against Big Tech’s abuse?

This is the second article in a series dealing with competition law and Big Tech. The aim of the series is to look at what competition law has achieved when it comes to protecting our digital rights, where it has failed to deliver on its promises, and how to remedy this.

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.