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EDRi is the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online. We work to to challenge private and state actors who abuse their power to control or manipulate the public. We do so by advocating for robust and enforced laws, informing and mobilising people, promoting a healthy and accountable technology market, and building a movement of organisations and individuals committed to digital rights and freedoms in a connected world.
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Serbian authorities must prosecute illegal hacking of journalists and activists
Today, 19 December, European Digital Rights (EDRi) and 50 organisations urge the European Union’s institutions to take action to stop the Serbian authorities’ illegal use of spyware to target journalists, activists, and members of civil society.
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Privacy Camp in 2025
The 2025 edition of Privacy Camp has been rescheduled to September 30, 2025. This change allows for a more impactful event in light of significant political shifts in Europe in 2024, including new Members of the European Parliament and a refreshed College of Commissioners.
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Shedding light: We address the flawed Going Dark Report
The “High Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement”, a.k.a. HLG Going Dark, presented its final report and recommendations for an agenda of maximal access to personal data. In an open letter we warn of the dangers and propose a better policy alternative.
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Dear Claire
With your decision to step down as EDRi's Executive Director in the summer of 2025, we celebrate your remarkable leadership during the past seven years. Your vision, resilience, and commitment to digital rights have shaped EDRi into the robust and well established network organisation it is today.
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EDRi-gram, 4 December 2024
This week, a new college of European Commissioners was confirmed by the European Parliament. Together with a broad civil society coalition, we welcomed them with our collective vision for EU policy that puts technology in the public interest. This call-to-action for the new leadership is crucial, given the worrying Commissioners' hearings in the European Parliament. Their focus on corporate and security interests steeped in, wrapped in a harmful logic of constant growth and control. Below, you can also read our main takeaways from the Commissioners' hearings. It was a mixed bag that reiterated the importance of our efforts towards achieving digital justice. More, we share a critical analysis of the EU's twin transition in times of crises, and its connection to green extractivism and militarisation. Romania has also been on our minds this week – with an unexpected extremist candidate winning the first round of the presidential elections. Civil society in Romania is ringing the alarm about the role that TikTok played in amplifying an existing democracy deficit and social issues, how the tech platform relates to DSA obligations, and what the EU and national authorities can do about it. Finally, EDRi's Executive Director Claire Fernandez is preparing for a leadership transition in 2025. Join us in thanking Claire for her dedication and impact, while reading some reflections below.
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TikTok catalyses extremist views and breaches electoral legislation in Romania
Romanian civil society is alarmed about political advertisement on TikTok breaching European and national laws and how that benefited an extremist candidate in the elections. EDRi member ApTI with 20 other NGOs from Romania call upon the European Commission and the national authorities to take swift action and investigate, as elections are still ongoing.
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New European Commission confirmed: our takeaways on what to expect
On 1 December 2024, the new political leaders of one of the EU’s most powerful institutions – the European Commission – officially took office. As part of their nomination process, they shared their digital visions for the next five years. Spoiler alert: the fight for digital rights will be as important as ever, with data protection, encryption and privacy all on the chopping block.
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Free Software Foundation Europe intervenes in landmark Apple vs European Commission case
EDRi member Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is taking a stand against Apple in a landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union, where the tech giant is challenging EU digital law. This intervention could help users and developers of Free Software.
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EDRi’s leadership transition: laying the ground for just digital futures
EDRi’s Executive Director, Claire Fernandez, reflects on her time leading the organisation through many milestones and obstacles, as she gets ready to step down in 2025. She also lays out the next steps for EDRi’s leadership transition.
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Italian DPA’s €5M fine against Glovo marks milestone for workers’ rights
The Italian data protection authority (DPA) recently fined Foodinhio, a subsidiary of Glovo, €5 million for serious breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and labour law. This decision sets a milestone for the use of the GDPR to protect workers' rights across Europe.
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EU’s twin transition in crisis: green extractivism, militarisation and civil society’s role
In June 2024, technologists, advocates, researchers, designers, artists and funders. met at Mozfest, to dismantle the underlying assumptions behind the techno-solutionist paradigm of the "twin transition”. This article summarises the main points of debate, and lays out next steps by mapping examples of transnational solidarity among digital and climate justice groups that can inspire field-building moving forward.
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Centering public interest in EU technology policies and practices: A civil society call to the new European leadership
Read the joint statement of civil society organisations following the Tech & Society Summit (1st October, Brussels).
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