https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/china-surveillance-social-control/
Aug 5, 2025 - Whether it is to crush dissent or to enable ambulances to get to hospitals quicker, Chinese authorities use technology to maximize control
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https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-council-approves-new-chat-control-mandate-pushing-mass-surveillance
Nov 28, 2025 - By disguising coercion as consent, the EU’s plan enlists tech companies as willing agents in its quiet expansion of digital surveillance.
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https://reclaimyourface.eu/the-future-of-our-fight-against-biometric-mass-surveillance/
Apr 30, 2025 - 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...
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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://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/03/lessons-from-the-stasi/
Aug 11, 2023 - Four decades of domination over almost all aspects of life in East Germany came to an abrupt halt exactly 25 years ago today. On 31 March 1990, one of the most...
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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://www.politico.eu/article/data-retention-europe-mass-surveillance/
Jul 31, 2022 - The EU’s top court says mass surveillance is banned. Governments do it anyway.
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https://edri.org/our-work/europols-new-powers-will-enable-big-data-analysis-and-mass-surveillance-we-say-no/
Apr 28, 2022 - The European Parliament is soon to vote on the new Europol reform which aims to expand the law enforcement agency’s powers without any accountability and...
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https://www.iccl.ie/news/national-cyber-security-bill-raises-mass-surveillance-and-internet-death-penalty-concerns-as-proposed-powers-exceed-eu-directive-nis2/
Nov 25, 2025 - Digital Rights Ireland and ICCL will address the Oireachtas Justice Committee to raise concerns about the National Cyber Security Bill 2024.
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https://ccla.org/privacy/surveillance-technology/ccla-joins-rights-groups-challenging-mass-surveillance-in-europe/
Sep 15, 2021 - Following last year’s victory in which the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found the UK’s historic surveillance regime was illegal, a coalition of...
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https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/us-governments-mass-collection-immigrant-dna-hints-surveillance-future
The genetic data will be added to an FBI database for violent criminals.
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https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/04/06/mass-surveillance-automated-suspicion-extreme-power-how-tech-is-shaping-the-eus-borders
The EU's frontier is starting to resemble a science fiction film, say experts.
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https://edri.org/our-work/reclaim-your-face-biometric-surveillance/
Feb 15, 2021 - The EDRi network and partners launched the first phase of the Reclaim Your Face campaign, which focuses on raising awareness and investigating and challenging...
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3065905/ring-denies-being-mass-surveillance-but-ai-dog-tracking-will-continue.html
Feb 19, 2026 - While it's abandoned plans to partner with a controversial camera network, Ring will reportedly
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https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/UK-Fraud-Bill-targets-benefit-claimants-for-mass-surveillance
May 21, 2025 - The UK government’s proposed Fraud Bill will disproportionately place millions of benefit claimants under constant surveillance, creating a two-tier...
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https://reclaimyourface.eu/eu-ai-act-will-fail-commitment-to-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/
Jan 22, 2024 - On 8 December 2023, EU lawmakers celebrated reaching a deal on the long-awaited Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. Lead Parliamentarians reassured their...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/court-rules-uk-mass-surveillance-programme-unlawful/
In 2013, following Edward Snowden’s disclosure of information about major national mass surveillance programmes, the Open Rights Group teamed up with...
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https://reclaimyourface.eu/protect-my-face-brussels-residents-join-the-fight-against-biometric-mass-surveillance/
Mar 29, 2023 - The newly-launched Protect My Face campaign gives residents of the Brussels region of Belgium the opportunity to oppose mass facial recognition. EDRi applauds...
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https://www.asso-sherpa.org/eu-countries-should-say-no-to-the-csar-mass-surveillance-proposal
Feb 9, 2024 - Sherpa and 81 organisations have sent an open letter to EU governments to once again urge them to say no to the CSA Regulation until it fully protects online...
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https://ccla.org/privacy/mass-surveillance-challenge-proceeds-to-europes-highest-human-rights-court/
Sep 22, 2021 - CCLA and 9 partner organisations have made another step forward in our attempt to stop mass surveillance of the world’s networked communications systems....
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https://ccla.org/privacy/national-security/mass-surveillance-and-bulk-collection-in-bill-c-59/
Sep 15, 2021 - One of the most insidious elements of Bill C-59 is the way it facilitates bulk collection, and mass surveillance without using those terms. C-59 envisions two...
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https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-ceo-goes-ballistic
Jan 16, 2026 - CEO attacks motives of people who care about privacy, says they are trying to “normalize lawlessness” and “let murderers go free”
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https://ccla.org/privacy/national-security/mass-surveillance-inclo-case-continues/
Sep 22, 2021 - Mass surveillance violates international privacy rights and is fundamentally incompatible with the rights to free speech and free association that lie at the...
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https://reclaimyourface.eu/parliament-calls-loud-and-clear-for-a-ban-on-biometric-mass-surveillance-in-ai-act/
Sep 15, 2022 - After our timely advocacy actions with over 70 organisations, the amendments to the IMCO – LIBE Committee Report for the Artificial Intelligence Act...
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https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-eu-countries-should-say-no-to-the-csar-mass-surveillance-proposal/
Sep 14, 2023 - Today, EDRi and 81 organisations have sent an open letter to EU governments to once again urge them to say no to the CSA Regulation until it fully protects...
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https://www.digitalrights.ie/campaigns/mass-surveillance/
Aug 28, 2025 - DRI has led successful challenges against indiscriminate data retention and state surveillance measures in Ireland and the EU, fighting against blanket...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/home-office-surveillance-cctv/
The Home Office has for several years run a programme to supply Mosques, temples and Synagogues with security equipment including CCTV cameras.
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https://www.itpro.com/security/privacy/357351/uk-mass-surveillance-regime-is-illegal-eu-court-declares
Indiscriminate data collection contravenes rights to privacy and data protection, despite “national security” justification
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https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-must-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance-practices-say-56-civil-society-groups/
Apr 1, 2021 - On 1 April, a coalition of 56 human rights, digital rights and social justice organisations sent a letter to European Commissioner for Justice, Didier...
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https://edri.org/our-work/leaked-opinion-of-the-commission-sets-off-alarm-bells-for-mass-surveillance-of-private-communications/
Mar 23, 2022
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/france-allowing-mass-surveillance-at-olympics-undermines-eu-efforts-to-regulate-ai/
Dec 11, 2024 - Responding to the French National Assembly’s decision to permit the use of mass video surveillance technology powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) during...
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