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2017: Important Consultations for your Digital Rights!
Public consultations are an opportunity to influence policy-making at an early stage, and to help to shape a brighter future for your digital rights.
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EDRi’s Press Review 2016
During the past year, our work to defend citizens’ rights and freedoms online has gained an impressive visibility – we counted nearly four hundred mentions! – in European and international media. Below, you can find our press review 2016.
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What digital rights are at imminent risk? All of them.
Our civil rights in the digital environment are based on our rights to protect our personal security and data, our right to communicate freely, and our right for any restrictions to be necessary, predictable and proportionate. Every one of these rights is now under imminent threat.
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Mobilisation for digital rights
This article is also available in Dutch: https://www.bof.nl/2016/07/11/mobilisatie-voor-digitale-rechten/ In a digital society, digital rights are simply our rights. They are our right to express ourselves freely, our right to a private life, our right to our possessions. But what if digital society fails to realise that our traditional rights and freedoms cannot always be defended by […]
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EDRi launches working group to improve digital rights advocacy across Europe
Over the past decade, we’ve seen a lot of great work and successes by digital rights organisations across Europe. We have used our expertise, creativity and network to make up for being low on resources and few in number. However, threats to human rights in the digital environment are persistent and growing. That’s why a […]
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European Digital Rights at re:publica 2016
Last week, the re:publica, “Europe’s most exciting conference on Internet and society”, took place in Berlin. EDRi’s members and observers were out in force and participated in the 10th anniversary of the re:publica. We’ve collected all talks by our network for you (in chronological order): Fight for your digital rights (in German) Link to re:publica […]
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TiSA: European Parliament ready to defend digital rights?
On 18 January 2016, the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee (INTA) adopted a non-legislative report, that will be subject to a vote by the whole Parliament on 3 February 2015. Similar to TTIP, harsh criticism has been expressed on the nature and content of the TiSA negotiations. While the INTA committee remained silent about certain […]
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EDRi’s press review 2015
JANUARY 21/01 Some French want a Patriot Act, but they have something even tougher (globalpost) 21/01 Eurovision tellybods: Yes, you heard right – net neutrality (The Register) 21/01 EBU urges European net neutrality (Digital TV Europe) 21/01 Some French want a Patriot Act, but they have something even tougher (globalpost) 22/01 Calls for European ISPs […]
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TTIP Resolution: what did the Parliament say about Digital Rights?
On 8 July, 2015, the European Parliament finally adopted a resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The TTIP resolution contains non-binding recommendations to the Commission regarding digital rights, among other topics. At the beginning of 2015, EDRi published its red lines, which was later developed into a booklet “TTIP and Digital Rights”. […]
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EDRi-gram 300: Digital rights news from 2025
We are proud to present the 300th edition of the EDRi-gram as an eBook entitled “Digital rights news from 2025”!
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Digital Rights sessions at the CPDP Conference
The first tradition of every new year is the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP) which will take place on 22‐24 January 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Before the official start of the conference, the annual pre-CPDP event for NGOs will take place on 21 January. It is co-organised by CPDP, VUB, EDRi, Access & […]
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Danish committee on citizens IT-rights
The Danish ministry of science and technology has mandated a committee on citizens IT-rights. The committee has representatives from various ministries, consumer organisations, the IT-business sector and civil society. EDRi-member Digital Rights has participated in the committee since it started its work in September 2002. The aim of the committee is to give recommendations to […]
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