Inclusive technologies

September 11, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online

The new and improved EDRi-gram

The EDRi-gram that you know and love has received a facelift! Welcome to EDRi-gram 2.0. We know that change can be hard but we hope that you are as excited as we are to take the newsletter and EDRi’s efforts to the next level.

September 10, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online

Digital Services Act: what we learned about tackling the power of digital platforms

A year into EDRi’s policy and advocacy efforts to improve the DSA, we take stock of our efforts in mapping challenges and successes in enabling positive change.

July 8, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Inclusive technologies

Digital rights for all

In this article we set out the background to EDRis’ work on anti-discrimination in the digital age. Here we take the first step to explore anti-discrimination as a digital rights issue, and then, what can EDRi do about it? The project is motivated by the need to recognise how oppression, discrimination and inequality impact the enjoyment of digital rights, and to live up to our commitment to uphold the digital rights of all.

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

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

February 26, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

Immigration, iris-scanning and iBorderCTRL

Technologies like automated decision-making, biometrics, and unpiloted drones are increasingly controlling migration and affecting millions of people on the move. This second blog post in our series on AI and migration highlights some of these uses, to show the very real impacts on people’s lives, exacerbated by a lack of meaningful governance and oversight mechanisms […]

February 19, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Data protection standards | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

The impact of competition law on your digital rights

This is the first 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. This series will first […]

February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Equal access to the internet | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

The human rights impacts of migration control technologies

This is the first blogpost of a series on our new project which brings to the forefront the lived experiences of people on the move as they are impacted by technologies of migration control. The project, led by our Mozilla Fellow Petra Molnar, highlights the need to regulate the opaque technological experimentation documented in and […]

February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics

Dangerous by design: A cautionary tale about facial recognition

In this fifth and final installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we consider an experience of harm caused by fundamentally violatory biometric surveillance technology.

January 15, 2020 · Publications | Privacy and data protection | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Equal access to the internet | Inclusive technologies | Online tracking industry / AdTech

#EthicalWebDev – guide for ethical website development and maintenance

We’ve finally published our new guide for ethical website development and maintenance, Ethical Web Dev! Explore the guide here

November 6, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices

Why tech is not “just a tool”

Throughout October 2019, digital rights-watchers welcomed new reports warning about the human rights crises of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies. From Philip Alston’s caution that the UK risks “stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia” to David Kaye’s critique of internet companies’ and States’ failure to respect human rights online, civil society is […]

November 6, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet | Inclusive technologies

Portuguese ISPs ignore telecom regulator’s recommendations

In 2018, the Portuguese telecom regulator ANACOM told the three major Portuguese mobile Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to change offers that were in breach of EU net neutrality rules. Among other things, the regulator recommended that ISPs publish their terms and conditions, and increase the data volume of their mobile data packs in order to […]

September 26, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices

Mozilla Fellow Petra Molnar joins us to work on AI & discrimination

Starting on 1 October, Petra Molnar will join our team as a Mozilla Fellow. She is a lawyer specialising in migration, human rights, and technology, and has a Masters of Social Anthropology from York University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M in International Law from the University of Cambridge. Mozilla […]