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Secret Report: German intelligence service BND breaks the law
The German intelligence service BND illegally collected and stored mass surveillance data and has to delete those data immediately. This is one of the conclusions of a classified report of the German Federal Data Protection Commissioner that German digital rights blog Netzpolitik.org published. In her report, the Commissioner criticises serious legal violations and a massive […]
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New documents reveal the truth behind the Hate Speech Code
EDRi obtained documents revealing different drafts of the Code of Conduct against Hate Speech and the correspondence exchanged between the European Commission and the four big companies that concluded the agreement on 31 May 2016: Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft. These documents complement an interesting response sent by Commissioner Jourová to a letter from the […]
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Finnish Big Brother Award goes to intrusive loyalty card programme
On 2 September, EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) presented the 2016 Big Brother Awards. The Awards are given to individuals or organisations who have during the past year remarkably undermined citizens’ privacy and data protection. The goal is to draw attention to violations of privacy.
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The lobby-tomy 9: Lessons of the lobby
The new European privacy law was a feast for lobbyists, but how did the Dutch government deal with all that information? And is lobbying bad? The new European data protection regulation is the most lobbied piece of legislation ever because the subject is very important and touches upon almost every aspect of our daily lives. […]
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ENDitorial: “When crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto”
Fortunately, all terrorists are law-abiding citizens. That must have been what the interior ministers of France and Germany were thinking when they asked on 23 August the European Commission to draft a new law that would require services such as Telegram to cooperate with the decryption of encrypted communications. In their joint press statement, the […]
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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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