#edrigram — Public Fediverse posts
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🤡 It’s April Fools’ day and recent news from the EU #DigitalRights world does feel like headlines from The Onion.
In this #EDRigram, read about the various ways EU institutions and member states continued to clown around about our rights, & how we kept up the good fight:
🤔 Fewer rules, more innovation? Miscalculation of the new Brussels
🏆 A landmark conviction by Greek courts of #spyware vendors
‼️ The #DigitalOmnibus: A step back from the brink, but the risks remain -
🗞️ Your favourite #DigitalRights newsletter is back! Strap in for the busy and buzzy first edition of the #EDRigram in 2026. On our agenda:
🕵🏾 new resource to strengthen the case for an EU-wide ban on #spyware
✊🏾 resisting discriminatory algorithms in the Netherlands with Bits of Freedom, and in France with La Quadrature du Net and coalition.
🤔 EDRi's 2025 year in review - resisting and persisting despite everything... and more! ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-21-january-2026/
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Need some weekend reading to catch up on #DigitalRights news and analysis? The latest #EDRigram is now out! Spoiler alert: we have the #DigitalOmnibus on our minds 🤯
What else can you find in there?
🤔 #ArtificialIntelligence is not as artificial as you might think, by @superrr
🚫 Why #AgeVerification misses the mark and puts everyone at risk
🤝🏾 The EU Digital Trade Agreement with Singapore is a setback our rights... and much more.
Read the latest edition ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-27-november-2025/
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📨 The latest edition of your favourite #DigitalRights newsletter is out! This time, we're grappling with changing seasons 🍂 🌧️ and much more. In this #EDRigram, read about:
💰 Budget cuts impairing Austria's #DataProtection Authority, and what NGOs are doing about it
📚 A new book on #spyware reiterating the call for a ban
⚖️ EDRi's take on #DigitalFairness and what we'd like to see in the upcoming #DFA... and more! https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-29-october-2025/
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😎 Out-of-office replies might be piling up, but the fight for #DigitalRights never clocks out.
Before the #EDRigram goes on summer break, here's a packed edition for you:
💪🏾 Resisting EU's #deregulation agenda that is threatening the #GDPR & #AIAct
🕵️♀️ @bitsoffreedom's new research on manipulative design by online platforms
📢 Call for sessions for #PrivacyCamp25 is now open➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-10-july-2025/
🌻 Show your favourite digital rights newsletter some summer love ➡️ https://edri.org/take-action/donate/
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🔥 Just dropped: a fresh #EDRigram in your inbox!
#Surveillance is rising, fascism is spreading, democracy is gasping. How do we resist? We’ve got plans. Big ones:
⛰️ EDRi’s strategy for 2025–2030 is locked and loaded
👁️🗨️ Our position paper which calls for a BAN on commercial #spyware
📌 #PrivacyCamp is back! September 30: save the date for the 2025 edition and get hypedRead about this (and much more) in our latest edition. Dive in ⤵️
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Habemus #EDRigram 💨
⚖️ EDRi member @iurecz wins #DataRetention dispute in the Czech Republic
💬 We challenge techno-solutionist narratives in #DigitalSurveillance
📝 How #DigitalTrade is the new frontline in the fight for our rightsRead about this and more in the latest edition: ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-7-may-2025/ -
📨 New #EDRigram in your inbox now! 📨
🗃️ How Panoptykon @panoptykon is challenging the #DataRetention regime in Poland.
👁️ How Citizen D @drzavljand is fighting for transparency about the CCTV systems used in Ljubljana’s municipal surveillance.
🕵️ Highlights from the 20th anniversary of the Czech Big Brother Awards, organised by IuRe @iurecz.
And more!
Not yet signed up for the hottest digital rights newsletter? 🤦
Luckily, you can read and subscribe to it here: ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-16-april-2025/ -
🗞️ Fresh off the press! The latest #EDRigram just landed in your inbox. In this edition, we cover:
🚨 Why the new #Europol regulation is a Trojan Horse for #surveillance
🇵🇱 Poland's attempts to break the deadlock on the controversial #CSAR
🔓 Attacks on #encryption by #France and the #UK
Get up to speed on EU #DigitalRights now ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-5-march-2025/
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The latest #EDRigram just dropped in your inboxes!
In this edition, read about:
✊🏿 civil society's call to the EU leadership to not succumb to pressure from #BigTech bullies and their allies in the Trump administration
🇮🇪 why #Ireland is the Achilles heel of the EU’s fight against Big Tech
🌿 the mirage of EU techno-solutionism to the climate crisis... and more! ⤵️
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The first #EDRigram of 2025 is here! 🎉
Here's what we have in store for you:
:europe: How should the #EU react to #Meta and #X going rogue?
🗺️ European Commission's proposal for digitalising travel documents.
🚨 Civil society's concerns over Europol-Egypt cooperation agreementsRead about this and more in the latest edition ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-22-january-2025/
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The latest hashtag #EDRigram is here! Read about:
🔥 the EU-US hashtag#DataPrivacy framework under fire
🇩🇪 a German petition calling for right to 'a life without digital coercion'
🇬🇧 UK Home Office's electronic monitoring programme expansion with more intrusive tech... and more ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-20-november-2024/
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The #EDRigram has dropped in your inboxes! Catch up on the latest #DigitalRights news:
📜 #EUTechSociety Summit highlights
📦 Unpacking #DigitalFairness
🇪🇺 paradoxical securitisation policiesand more! Read the latest edition ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-24-october-2024/ -
The #EDRigram has dropped in your inboxes! Catch up on the latest #DigitalRights news:
📜 #EUTechSociety Summit highlights
📦 Unpacking #DigitalFairness
🇪🇺 paradoxical securitisation policiesand more! Read the latest edition ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-24-october-2024/ -
The #EDRigram has dropped in your inboxes! Catch up on the latest #DigitalRights news:
📜 #EUTechSociety Summit highlights
📦 Unpacking #DigitalFairness
🇪🇺 paradoxical securitisation policiesand more! Read the latest edition ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-24-october-2024/ -
The #EDRigram has dropped in your inboxes! Catch up on the latest #DigitalRights news:
📜 #EUTechSociety Summit highlights
📦 Unpacking #DigitalFairness
🇪🇺 paradoxical securitisation policiesand more! Read the latest edition ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-24-october-2024/ -
The #EDRigram has dropped in your inboxes! Catch up on the latest #DigitalRights news:
📜 #EUTechSociety Summit highlights
📦 Unpacking #DigitalFairness
🇪🇺 paradoxical securitisation policiesand more! Read the latest edition ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-24-october-2024/ -
In the latest #EDRigram, we draw your attention to:
🇬🇷 Record-high #GDPR fine for Greece's Migration Ministry
🇪🇺 @europarl_en vote in favour of discriminatory #MigrationPack
💰Meta's harmful push to charge for privacy
& more!Read up & share: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-17-april-2024/
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The latest #EDRigram 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 #AgeVerification
📰EU Council's vote on EU #AIAct
➡️ & more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-7-february-2024/ -
Check out the latest #EDRigram to read about:
❌ @europarl_en rejecting #MassScanning in #CSAR
📢 16 NGOs pushing @EUCouncil to protect #HumanRights in #AIAct
✨ Exciting recommendations for the holidays
👁️ & more here: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-6-december-2023 -
Check out the latest #EDRigram to read about:
❌ @europarl_en rejecting #MassScanning in #CSAR
📢 16 NGOs pushing @EUCouncil to protect #HumanRights in #AIAct
✨ Exciting recommendations for the holidays
👁️ & more here: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-6-december-2023 -
Check out the latest #EDRigram to read about:
❌ @europarl_en rejecting #MassScanning in #CSAR
📢 16 NGOs pushing @EUCouncil to protect #HumanRights in #AIAct
✨ Exciting recommendations for the holidays
👁️ & more here: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-6-december-2023 -
Check out the latest #EDRigram to read about:
❌ @europarl_en rejecting #MassScanning in #CSAR
📢 16 NGOs pushing @EUCouncil to protect #HumanRights in #AIAct
✨ Exciting recommendations for the holidays
👁️ & more here: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-6-december-2023 -
Check out the latest #EDRigram to read about:
❌ @europarl_en rejecting #MassScanning in #CSAR
📢 16 NGOs pushing @EUCouncil to protect #HumanRights in #AIAct
✨ Exciting recommendations for the holidays
👁️ & more here: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-6-december-2023 -
Janne Cecilie Thorenfeldt was 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. She took the matter to court. Read why by @eff in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/norwegian-social-service-guilty-of-massive-gdpr-violations/
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The latest #EDRigram is out!🥳 Check out the top #DigitalRights updates from across Europe:⚖️EU content regulation goes to court
📹Lawmakers' faces are getting scanned with a facial recognition algorithm
🇳🇴Massive #GDPR violations in Norway
& more ➡️https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-23-november-2023/ -
The latest #EDRigram is out!🥳 Check out the top #DigitalRights updates from across Europe:
⚖️EU content regulation goes to court
📹Lawmakers' faces are getting scanned with a facial recognition algorithm
🇳🇴Massive #GDPR violations in Norway
& more ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-23-november-2023/ -
📩 Keep up with the #DigitalRights world with the #EDRigram!
In this edition read about:
🇪🇺 #encryption activists meet MEPs to urge them to support digital security
💵 Meta's 'pay for your rights' plans
🚨 Unchecked AI will lead us to a police state& more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-25-october-2023/
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🌍Digital data can travel freely across geographical boundaries. But what happens to our rights to have our data protected if they are half across the globe?
@OpenRightsGroup sheds light on the UK extension to the EU – US Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework
The extension provides a sneak peek at:
⚠️the future of UK international data transfers
👁️the erosion of essential guarantees against #surveillance that the UK #DataProtection reform would bring.More in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/the-uk-data-bridge-a-sneak-peek-at-the-uk-privacy-race-to-the-bottom-to-come/
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2/2 This is difficult to enforce since there are no:
❌set harmonised rules for rights risk assessments
❌consensus on what's a high-quality assessment🦸♀️ @ecnl & @accessnow to the rescue with key recommendations on how to do that in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/how-tech-corporations-like-google-meta-and-amazon-should-assess-impacts-on-our-rights
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The latest #EDRigram is out. Spice up your autumn late with the hottest #DigitalRights news:
📢 180 NGOs act to ban #FacialRecognition
🆕 News reveal industry & law enforcement interests prioritised in #CSAR
❌Journalists call for a ban on #spyware
➡️ & more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-11-october-2023/ -
📨The latest #DigitalRights news is now in your inbox!
In this #EDRigram, read about:
🇪🇺EU must say no to #CSAR mass surveillance
🚨Civil society calls for regulating police tech in #AIAct
🇨🇿 Czech police use of #FacialRecognition system
& more.
➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-27-september-2023/ -
It's June 2023, in Berlin, an angle grinder screeches loudly as it hits a metal yellow mailbox 📪
The metal is broken & so is the protection of the letters from prying eyes.
📢 This takes place as part of a mass protest led by the German alliance against chat control "ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN!" against the mass surveillance plans under #CSAR, during the visit of the EU Interior Commissioner to the conference of the German Interior ministers in Berlin.
Read more in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/the-stop-scanning-me-movement-organised-a-mass-protest-in-berlin-against-dangerous-surveillance-law/
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Child protection experts, survivors of CSA, police, governments, UN officials, companies & NGOs have raised concerns that:
The measures in the draft EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation are fundamentally ❌ incompatible with human rights.
More in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/most-criticised-eu-law-of-all-time/
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Getting lost in the many #DigitalPolicy updates in Europe? We've got you covered!
The latest #EDRigram looks at:
⚠️Wide criticism against #CSAR
📱New disturbing social network in Poland
📢115 orgs' call for an #AIAct that protects people
👀& moreRead up & share: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-13-september-2023/
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Check out brief by @digitalcourage in the most recent #EDRigram @edri. Plans by the EU commission on digitalising travel documents could require member states to implement digital travel credentials. This would affect all travelers if because of this physical travel documents are disadvantaged or even abolished entirely.:
https://edri.org/our-work/how-eus-plan-to-digitising-travel-documents-might-affect-you/
You can of course also find it in full on our website at:
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/digitalising-travel-documentsor in German at:
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/initiative-digitalisierte-reisedokumente -
🛫Passport and ID cards – soon available only through a smartphone app?
@EU_Commission plans to digitise travel documents & introduce contactless border controls with biometrics.
🚨This could affect all travelers in the future.
More by @digitalcourage in the latest #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/how-eus-plan-to-digitising-travel-documents-might-affect-you/
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☀️ Blazing hot #DigitalRights takes & news are now in your inbox with the latest #EDRigram!
In this edition, read about:
🔐 ongoing efforts in the EU and the UK to protect #encryption
🧳 what would EU's plan to digitise travel documents mean for you?
🏖️ what to do, watch, read and listen to this summer to keep yourself updated on all things digital x human rights while the #EDRigram is on a break& more.
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🔥Keep up with the hottest happenings of the #DigitalRights world with the #EDRigram:
❌Civil society asks MEPs to reject #eEvidence
🇪🇺 Will EU allow the use of personal data for political advertising?
👁️ Ten years of Snowden revelations -
👁️The use of technology like #BiometricSurveillance by governments threatens activists, journalists and civil society around the world
A new report by @ecnl maps the impact of such tech on civic space 🗺️
Read more in the #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/mapping-the-impact-of-biometric-surveillance-and-social-media-platforms-on-civic-space
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❌Oppressive digital governance, like in Iran, can affect digital assemblies and protests.
Check out @enablingNGOlaw's guide on safeguarding our #RightToAssemble in the digital space
Read more by EDRi affiliate @ecnl in this week's #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/iran-digital-spaces-of-protest-and-control/
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❌Oppressive digital governance, like in Iran, can affect digital assemblies and protests.
Check out @enablingNGOlaw's guide on safeguarding our #RightToAssemble in the digital space
Read more by EDRi affiliate @ecnl in this week's #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/iran-digital-spaces-of-protest-and-control/
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❌Oppressive digital governance, like in Iran, can affect digital assemblies and protests.
Check out @enablingNGOlaw's guide on safeguarding our #RightToAssemble in the digital space
Read more by EDRi affiliate @ecnl in this week's #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/iran-digital-spaces-of-protest-and-control/
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❌Oppressive digital governance, like in Iran, can affect digital assemblies and protests.
Check out @enablingNGOlaw's guide on safeguarding our #RightToAssemble in the digital space
Read more by EDRi affiliate @ecnl in this week's #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/iran-digital-spaces-of-protest-and-control/
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❌Oppressive digital governance, like in Iran, can affect digital assemblies and protests.
Check out @enablingNGOlaw's guide on safeguarding our #RightToAssemble in the digital space
Read more by EDRi affiliate @ecnl in this week's #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/iran-digital-spaces-of-protest-and-control/
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Check out the latest #EDRigram to learn about:
🎂 EDRi's 20year journey
👁New tracking system #TrustPid
🤳 #TikTok's creepy new feature using your emotions
🇷🇸 2nd battle against #BiometricSurveillance in Serbia & more!Read here & share with your friends: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-16-february-2023/