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176 Posts, 72 Following, 671 Followers · We stand up for human rights in the digital age.
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https://edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-are-going-rogue-here-is-what-europe-should-do-now/
Jan 21, 2025 - To solve the core problem, we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in independent digital alternatives.
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https://edri.org/our-work/high-level-group-going-dark-outcome-a-mission-failure/
Jun 13, 2024 - On 13 June, the Justice and Home Affairs Council, composed of EU Member States’ ministers of the Interior, will discuss the recommendations of the High-Level...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/digital-rights-24/
Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election.
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https://imageangel.co.uk/ending-digital-violence-sex-workers-rights-eswa/
Nov 26, 2025 - Yigit Aydinalp of ESWA discusses ending digital violence against sex workers, digital rights advocacy, and building safer online spaces for all.
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https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/feature-story/2025/11/digital-violence-is-real-violence-one-activists-fight-for-safety-and-human-rights
Activist Ljubica Fuentes talks to UN Women about her quest to make the digital world safe for women and girls.
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram14-june-2023/
Jun 14, 2023 - 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.
european digital rightsgramjune
https://www.virtru.com/newsroom/virtrus-mishi-choudhary-honored-with-2025-eff-award-for-digital-rights-leadership
Virtru's Mishi Choudhary receives a 2025 EFF Award highlighting her impactful contributions to digital rights, empowerment and legal advocacy.
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https://edri.org/our-work/digital-dissidents-will-introduce-those-who-do-not-use-technology/
Feb 2, 2022 - Czech digital legal organisation and an EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) organised the Big Brother Film Festival in Prague a few months ago, at the end of...
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https://edri.org/take-action/careers/7amleh-is-hiring-for/
Oct 6, 2025 - 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media is a non-profit organization that advocates for Palestinian digital rights.
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https://ishr.ch/latest-updates/rightscon-2025-advocating-for-justice-protecting-human-rights-defenders-in-the-digital-era/
Mar 11, 2025 - From 24 to 27 of February, the 13th edition of RightsCon took place in Taipei, Taiwan, bringing together human rights defenders, business leaders…
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/digital-rights-are-everyones-business-your-team-can-join-fight
Companies large and small are doubling down on digital rights, and we’re excited to see more and more of them join EFF. We’re first and always an...
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https://5rightsfoundation.com/resource/joint-letter-on-digital-omnibus-proposals/
Nov 18, 2025 - 5Rights along with civil society networks representing more than 300 organisations, experts, and the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights have...
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https://edri.org/what-we-do/decolonising-digital-rights/
May 29, 2024 - We want to challenge the causes of oppression and move towards a digital rights field in which all groups in society have their voices heard.
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-17-april-2024/
Apr 17, 2024 - 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.
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https://insm-iq.org/en/?p=1617
Aug 25, 2025 - On Saturday, April 10, 2025, authorities in Erbil arrested the owner of “Twana FX,” a locally known digital trading company,
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-29-may-2024/
May 29, 2024 - 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.
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-annual-report-2022-challenges-success-and-changes-in-advancing-digital-rights-in-europe/
Feb 14, 2024 - In our Annual Report, you can learn how EDRi built strong coalitions across civil society, mobilised hundreds of people, influenced key stakeholders at the...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/stop-e-visas-and-digital-windrush-scandal/
What is the e-Visa scheme?
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-18-8-29-april-2020/
Sep 15, 2020 - "The upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) must address the issue of political microtargeting. It is a once-in-a-decade chance to correct the power...
european digital rightsgramapril
https://edri.org/our-work/digital-service-act-document-pool/
Nov 7, 2022 - The upcoming DSA will revise the rules contained in the E-Commerce Directive of 2000 that affect how intermediaries regulate and influence user activity on...
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https://www.witness.org/witness-joins-open-letter-urging-eu-to-stop-plans-that-could-weaken-digital-rights-protections/
Nov 13, 2025
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https://www.digitalrights.ie/campaigns/
Aug 28, 2025 - Privacy Rights DRI defends the right of individuals to control how their personal information is collected, used, and shared by organizations and governments....
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https://edri.org/take-action/edri-gram/
Nov 27, 2025 - Published since 2003, twice a month, the EDRi-gram newsletter collects and summarises the most important digital rights news across Europe.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/what-is-our-digital-future-ihuman-and-an-ai-strategy-for-scotland/
Monday 14 December 2020 16:30 GMT Watch the recording here.
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https://termly.io/resources/articles/florida-data-privacy-bill-of-rights/
Jan 5, 2026 - We take a first look at the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR) and cover everything businesses need to know to be ready.
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https://visittuscaloosa.com/blog/explore-new-tuscaloosa-civil-rights-trail-digital-passport/
Aug 25, 2025 - Tuscaloosa, AL – Visit Tuscaloosa is excited to announce the launch of the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Trail Digital Passport. This is a new way for residents and
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https://namati.org/news-stories/csos-call-for-full-integration-of-human-rights-in-the-deployment-of-digital-id-systems/
Jan 11, 2023 - Governments around the world are moving rapidly towards digital identification systems. These schemes can make public services more efficient, but they can...
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-25-september-2024/
Sep 25, 2024 - 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.
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-14-july-2021/
Jul 14, 2021 - Whilst EU laws say that each of us is innocent until proven guilty, the prevalence of biometric mass surveillance practices across Europe flips this on its...
european digital rightsgramjuly
https://edri.org/our-work/shedding-light-we-address-the-flawed-going-dark-report/
Dec 11, 2024 - The HLG Going Dark presented its final report and recommendations for an agenda of maximal access to personal data.
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https://edri.org/our-work/one-year-of-the-ai-act-whats-the-political-and-legal-landscape-now/
Aug 7, 2025 - This blog takes stock of the political and legal landscape facing its implementation and enforcement one year on.
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https://edri.org/our-work/why-age-verification-misses-the-mark-and-puts-everyone-at-risk/
Nov 25, 2025 - Age verification is a short-sighted, ineffective and dangerous way to protect young people form online harms.
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https://edri.org/take-action/edri-acta-campaign/
Dec 19, 2023 - In February 2012, hundreds of thousands of people took the streets in several European cities in order to protest ACTA. The fight was successful, with the...
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-16-september-2020/
Sep 16, 2020 - "Structural racism appears in policy areas from health, employment to climate. It is increasingly clear that digital and technology policy is also not...
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-18-9-13-may-2020/
Sep 15, 2020 - "The use of biometric surveillance systems creates a dynamic where the powerful watch and the powerless are watched"
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-21-february-2024/
Feb 21, 2024 - 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.
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https://edri.org/our-work/facial-recognition-and-fundamental-rights-101/
Sep 9, 2020 - This is the first post in a series about the fundamental rights impacts of facial recognition. Private companies and governments worldwide are already...
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https://edri.org/our-work/police-cameras-won-big-brother-awards-in-czechia/
Apr 19, 2023 - Czech organization Iuridicum Remedium handed out its anti-prizes for the eighteenth time in March this year.
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https://www.digitalrights.ie/digital-rights-ireland-welcomes-e550000-fine-for-illegal-psc-biometric-data-gathering/
Jun 12, 2025 - Today’s decision leaves the government in a very serious situation. It has spent hundreds of millions of euro on an illegal PSC project.
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https://edri.org/our-work/the-right-to-pay-in-cash-approaches-of-european-countries-mapped/
Jan 17, 2024 - The Czech organisation Iuridicum Remedium analysed the approaches of different countries in Europe towards cash payments in a new study.
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https://mediarightsagenda.org/leveraging-digital-tools/
Nov 25, 2025 - This publication, Leveraging Digital Tools for Journalism Practice, is part of our ongoing commitment to supporting media professionals in embracing
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https://edri.org/our-work/platformpower-eu/
Nov 30, 2021 - Take back the power from Big Tech! Join our campaign to ask for online platforms to put people before profit.
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https://rankingdigitalrights.org/tgs22/
Ranking Digital Rights evaluates and ranks 12 of the world’s most powerful telecommunications companies on their policies and practices affecting people’s...
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https://www.digitalrights.ie/campaigns/privacy-rights/
Aug 28, 2025 - DRI defends the right of individuals to control how their personal information is collected, used, and shared by organizations and governments. European and...
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https://www.digitalrights.ie/about/
Jun 12, 2025 - Digital Rights Ireland is dedicated to defending Civil, Human and Legal rights in a digital age. We are a small, focused organization. We have no staff or...
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https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-calls-on-the-eu-to-put-fundamental-rights-first-in-the-ai-act/
Dec 9, 2021 - Today, 30 November 2021, European Digital Rights (EDRi) and 114 civil society organisations launched a collective statement to call for an Artificial...
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https://edri.org/take-action/our-campaigns/
Nov 26, 2025 - Explore our campaigns to hold power to account & get involve! Let's harness the mobilising power of the people to protect digital rights.
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https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
Nov 27, 2025 - The European Commission has published two Digital Omnibus proposals, reopening the EU’s core protections against harm in the digital age.
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-5-march-2025/
Mar 5, 2025 - 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.
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https://edri.org/our-work/net-neutrality-primary-document-source/
Sep 11, 2020 - As the debate about net neutrality is moving forward in the European Parliament we are closely following the proceedings and giving input on all levels along...
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https://brave.com/podcast/e25/
Pat Walshe, Data Protection Officer at Brave, discusses the intersection of artificial intelligence, privacy, and data protection…and how these elements...
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https://www.change.org/p/central-bank-of-nigeria-violation-of-digital-rights-of-nigerians
Sep 7, 2022 - #Covid19 affected and is affecting the poorest of poor livelihood more than any in Nigeria, thereby exposing very high numbers to vulnerabilities of...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/say-no-to-digital-id/
Digital ID cards could create a digital surveillance infrastructure that will change everyone’s daily lives.
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https://www.accessnow.org/access-now-grants-10-years/
Nov 24, 2025 - Access Now grants marks 10 years of funding digital rights activism globally, celebrating 10 extraordinary grantees.
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https://centrefordigitalrights.org/
Welcome to the Centre for Digital Rights. This is our home on the internet.
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https://www.eff.org/event/betting-your-digital-rights-eff-benefit-poker-tournament-def-con-34
The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is back for DEF CON 34! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free...
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https://edri.org/our-work/decolonising-digital-rights-field/
Feb 15, 2021 - This week, a group of 30 participants, working on issues of racial, social and economic justice, digital rights, and in philanthropy, came together to not only...
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-7-february-2024/
Feb 7, 2024 - 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.
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https://masaar.net/en/ipv6-and-digital-rights-in-egypt-towards-a-more-efficient-free-and-inclusive-internet/
Jul 1, 2025 - IPv6 and Digital Rights in Egypt: Towards a More Efficient, Free, and Inclusive Internet
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https://edri.org/our-work/czech-online-state-services-without-google-analytics-thanks-to-iure/
Mar 2, 2023 - The open letter that Iuridicum sent in 2021 had a much bigger impact than expected: many state websites are getting rid of Google Analytics.
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https://www.artrights.me/en/memo-akten-the-digital-artist-attentive-to-the-environment/
May 13, 2021 - Let's discover Memo Akten, the Turkish artist and computer scientist who studied the environmental impact of the NFT market
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https://edri.org/our-work/despite-warning-from-lawyers-eu-governments-push-for-mass-surveillance-of-our-digital-private-lives/
Jul 17, 2023 - The Council is split between those that are committed to upholding privacy and digital security in Europe, and those that aren’t.
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https://edri.org/our-work/eu-stands-up-to-big-tech-with-e120-million-fine-to-x/
Dec 8, 2025 - The European Commission took aim at X for breaking the DSA, proof that Europe’s landmark law can bite.
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https://digitalnisvobody.cz/digital-freedom/
Oct 30, 2025 - Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) is a Czech non-profit organization founded in 2001. IuRe is a small team based in Prague and Brno. IuRe is a member…
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-2-april-2025/
Apr 2, 2025 - 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.
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https://www.digitalrights.ie/digital-rights-ireland-agrees-settlement-with-irish-data-protection-commission-over-data-breach-complaint/
Feb 3, 2023 - In a victory for Facebook users whose data was leaked on the dark web, Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has resolved its court case with the Data Protection...
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https://edri.org/our-work/facial-recognition-document-pool/
Aug 9, 2023 - Despite evidence that public facial recognition and other forms of biometric mass surveillance infringe on a wide range EU fundamental rights, European...
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https://edri.org/take-action/events/collective-redress-and-digital-fairness-conference/
Nov 10, 2025 - The Collective Redress and Digital Fairness Conference, organized by the University of Amsterdam with support from the Stichting Onderzoek Collectieve Actie,...
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https://edri.org/take-action/our-campaigns/saveyourinternet-eu/
Nov 30, 2021 - Growing bigger and bigger in 2018, the SaveYourInternet.eu campaign managed by the EDRi network has become the main platform for concerned citizens wanting to...
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-18-2-29-january-2020/
Sep 15, 2020 - "We've all heard the saying: 'If the product is free, then you're the product'"
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https://edri.org/our-work/net-neutrality-wins-europe/
Dec 1, 2020 - New net neutrality guidelines from the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) confirm strong protection for net neutrality, and for...
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https://edri.org/take-action/events/data-privacy-day-2/
Nov 6, 2025 - Data Privacy Day is an annual event in the framework of the Data Protection Day which is held every year on 28 January.
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https://www.csohate.org/2025/09/02/chinese-transnational-repression/
Sep 2, 2025 - In this interview, Zumretay Arkin describes how China carries out transnational repression against Uyghur activists through digital surveillance.
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https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/women-human-rights-defenders-address-digital-violence-during-the-16-days-of-activism/
Nov 25, 2025 - Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, an...
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-18-7-15-april-2020/
Sep 15, 2020 - "What can the experiences of the UK, Poland and Hungary teach states about how to stop the spread of coronavirus - without leaving the door ajar for...
european digital rightsgramapril
https://edri.org/take-action/events/international-digital-rights-days/
Nov 10, 2025 - In a society increasingly shaped by the digital world, it is essential to emphasize the importance of everyone’s right to access and use.
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-23-november-2023/
Nov 23, 2023 - 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.
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https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/consumer-and-digital-rights-groups-call-international-joint-initiative-e-commerce-safeguard
This joint statement calls on countries participating in the WTO negotiations on global rules to make it easier for consumers and companies to trade online to...
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