European Digital Rights - EDRi

07/02/2024

The latest is now in your inboxes.🤩📩 You did not get it? Then make sure to subscribe: https://edri.org/take-action/stay-up-to-date-with-edris-newsletters/

In this edition, we're looking at:
🛂Rising attempts for
📰EU Council's vote on EU
➡️ & more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-7-february-2024/

04/01/2024

The best way to kickstart the new year? 🎉 Join us at , REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN AGAIN! ⤵️

https://privacycamp.eu/registrations-open-and-final-programme-out-now

🗓️ The 24 January 2024, online or in Brussels, explore the systems that shape the field of and !

🤝 is organised by European Digital Rights, along with Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS), Privacy Salon, Institute for European Studies at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Institute for Information Law (IViR) & the Racism and Technology Centre.

06/12/2023

Check out the latest to read about:

❌ European Parliament rejecting in

📢 16 NGOs pushing Council of the European Union to protect in

🚨 +100 organisations call on EU policymakers to reject the ongoing reform

✨ Exciting recommendations for the holidays

👁️ & more here:

What has the EDRis network been up to over the past two weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter.

05/12/2023

Our online spaces are dominated by platforms that profit from our engagement and interactions.

We want true digital public spaces for us to:
📢openly express
📚exchange ideas
🗣️engage in substantive discourse

Here is why building digital public spaces is essential for our : https://edri.org/our-work/new-research-calls-for-digital-public-spaces/

In a newly published paper Open Future, explains why establishing Digital Public Space is necessary for the realisation of digital rights.

01/12/2023

Experts are clear that would mean the total loss of personal freedom, a breach of the right to privacy and amplified discrimination based on machine biases. 🤚🏿BUT a handful of EU lawmakers fail to understand the risks of this technology.

We can change that. Here are 3⃣ simple steps to get them to vote in favour of your in the EU’s law on artificial intelligence.

🖱️Go to dontspy.eu
🗺️Browse the map & upload photos of your favorite politicians
👁️scan their faces with a face recognition algorithm

It’s the final month of negotiations. Share with your friends and act together.

Read more about this action in by EDRi member Hermes Center: https://edri.org/our-work/ai-act-what-happens-when-lawmakers-faces-get-scanned-with-face-recognition-algorithms/

Hermes Center simulates face recognition on lawmakers to pressure them for a total ban of remote biometric identification in the AI Act.

28/11/2023

On 3 October, the trial of the so-called case began. 7⃣ people are prosecuted for being a “terrorist group”. They are put on trial in France for:
🔐using encrypted apps like Signal
📚participating in digital security training

This trial is part of an increased political push by states and law enforcement for surveillance measures and the criminalisation of encryption.

That is why the trial is crucial in the battle against states’ ongoing attempts to criminalise commonplace, and secure and healthy digital practices. This is important to everyone. Here is why: https://edri.org/our-work/8-december-case-why-is-encryption-on-trial/

On 3 October, the trial of the so-called “8 December” case began. Seven people are prosecuted for being a “terrorist group”.

27/11/2023

🚨Janne Cecilie Thorenfeldt took the Norwegian Social Service to court for massive violations.

In 2016, Janne Cecilie Thorenfeldt was involved in a car accident. She got sick pay from the Norwegian Social Service, which is also her employer.

After a while, her colleagues knew private things about her situation. 🤔 It was established that there are logs of access to her data.

When she requested to see these logs, the Social Service refused to provide any information, so she took them to court. Read more in the latest :

Janne C. Thorenfeldt discovered that her employer, the Norwegian Social Service, violated her data protection rights. She took them to court.

23/11/2023

The latest is out!🥳 Check out the top updates from across Europe:

⚖️EU content regulation goes to court

📹Lawmakers' faces are getting scanned with a facial recognition algorithm

🇳🇴Massive violations in Norway

& more ➡️

What has the EDRis network been up to over the past two weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter.

26/10/2023

📩 Keep up with the world with the !

In the latest edition edition read about:
🇪🇺 activists meet MEPs in Brussels to urge them to support everyone's digital security
💵 Meta's 'pay for your rights' plans to circumvent EU laws
🚨 Unchecked will lead us to a police state

& more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-25-october-2023/

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What has the EDRis network been up to over the past two weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter.