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From a visit to the doctor to public transport tickets , the European eID will handle our most sensitive personal data in a wide range of every-day applications. Yet, speed seems more important t...

https://edri.org/our-work/rushed-eu-eid-wallet-risks-privacy-and-security-calls-for-safeguards-are-getting-ignored-in-hasty-eidas-implementation/

The final AI Act is disappointingly full of holes when it comes to bans on different forms of biometric mass surveillance (BMS). Despite this, there are some silver linings in the form of opportu...

https://edri.org/our-work/the-future-of-our-fight-against-biometric-mass-surveillance/

Ahead of a crucial opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) – a grouping of the EU’s chief privacy regulators - on Meta’s plan to charge for privacy, the European Commission ha...

https://edri.org/our-work/privacy-is-not-for-sale-meta-must-stop-charging-for-peoples-right-to-privacy/

EU lawmakers have agreed on a compromise for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) which will expose everyone’s medical records to unnecessary security and privacy risks in the name of research...

https://edri.org/our-work/new-eu-health-data-law-endangers-medical-secrecy/

As a result of Privacy International’s 2022 complaint against the UK Home Office, the UK data protection authority (ICO) has found that the GPS tagging of migrants and asylum seekers arriving t...

https://edri.org/our-work/gps-tagging-of-migrants-found-unlawful-by-uk-data-protection-authority/

Now, when push has come to shove, policymakers at the European Union (EU) must act to ban spyware in Europe. Yesterday, the media reported a major attack on EU democracy with members of the Eu...

https://edri.org/our-work/press-release-brussels-rocked-by-major-spyware-scandal-urgent-call-for-ban/

Imagine your friend sent you a private DM on Twitter. Now imagine, instead of the content remaining for your eyes only, Twitter letting the police also take a peek at it. Such intrusive practic...

https://edri.org/our-work/when-law-enforcement-undermines-our-digital-safety-who-is-looking-after-our-interests/

While it is a step forward in better enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Parliament’s current GDPR Procedural Harmonisation Regulation text is still not enough...

https://edri.org/our-work/gdpr-enforcement-european-parliament-must-guarantee-procedural-rights-to-ensure-peoples-data-protection/

On 30 January 2024, EDRi submitted its comments on the Irish Media Regulator’s (Coimisiún na Meán) new Online Safety Code in a public consultation, highlighting significant concerns about�...

https://edri.org/our-work/irish-media-regulator-must-address-dangerous-age-verification-in-its-new-online-safety-code/

On 3 October, the trial of the so-called “8 December” case began. Seven people are prosecuted for being a “terrorist group”. The post “8 December” case: why is encryption on trial? ...

https://edri.org/our-work/8-december-case-why-is-encryption-on-trial/

On 14th November, Members of the European Parliament’s ‘Civil Liberties’ committee voted against attempts from EU Home Affairs officials to roll out mass scanning of private and encrypted m...

https://edri.org/our-work/eu-parliament-committee-rejects-mass-scanning-of-private-and-encrypted-communications/

Police forces around Europe seem hooked on the habit of collecting information on a massive scale and forwarding it to the EU's police agency, Europol. This undermines privacy, fair trial rights ...

https://edri.org/our-work/why-your-data-might-already-be-on-a-europol-list/

Breaking encryption and criminalising its use will not resolve the deep societal issues we are facing. Instead, governments should protect and promote the very tool that ensures our digital secur...

https://edri.org/our-work/are-we-about-to-lose-the-last-pillar-of-our-digital-security/

Now is the time to show your support for encryption and influence the European Parliament to do better for children and everyone else. Join the #CelebrateEncryption action and share photos of you...

https://edri.org/our-work/party-cipate-and-celebrateencryption/

One single app to rent a hotel room, prove your age, your educational, financial or health certificates, or to access digital public and private services? Sounds convenient? Well, it is. But if d...

https://edri.org/our-work/digital-id-civil-society-demands-protection-of-users/

End-to-end encryption is currently under attack by prosecutors and legislators in France, the EU, the UK and the US. We are asked to choose, as a society: do we accept a future in which our priva...

https://edri.org/our-work/encryption-protects-our-rights-privacy-is-not-a-crime/

EDRi, Open Rights Group and over 80 civil society organisations, academics and cyber experts from 23 countries have written to the UK government to raise the alarm about proposed powers in the On...

https://edri.org/our-work/online-safety-bill-insecure-international-organisations-academics-and-cyber-experts-urge-uk-government-to-protect-encrypted-messaging/

Civil society, doctors, lawyers and journalists associations and internet service providers are calling on MEPs to reject the so-called “e-Evidence” package during the plenary vote on June 13...

https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-e-evidence-package-lacks-appropriate-safeguards-eu-parliament-must-reject-it/

In June 2023, the European Union (EU) will adopt its first report on the state of the ‘Digital Decade’ – a plan launched in 2022 with digitalisation targets for business, public services an...

https://edri.org/our-work/missing-peoples-rights-in-the-eu-digital-decade/

How did we reach this point of even discussing a law (Child Sexual Abuse Regulation) that so manifestly undermines our democratic structures, threatens to override the fundamental rights that gen...

https://edri.org/our-work/the-csa-regulation-how-did-it-reach-this-point/