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As Musk joins the Trump administration, EDRi is joining many other organisations and people in leaving X. Today, we are hosting an important Spaces conversation, stay tuned. edri.org/our-work/why-edri-i…
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New #TiSA leaks: The proposals on privatised #censorship are particularly worrying. edri.org/new-leaks-confirm-t… @netzpolitik @Greenpeace
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Our German member @digitalcourage calls on minister @JuliaKloeckner to vote against the #CopyrightDirective and prevent #UploadFilters. On 15 April she will represent Germany during the vote in @EUCouncil . Sign the call: digitalcourage.de/blog/2019/… #SaveYourInternet #Artikel13
Last chance to stop #uploadfilters & #article16! German agriculture Minister @JluiaKloeckner will vote on the new #copyright on 15 April in #EU #Council. We call on Ms Klöckner to say No! Support our last minute appeal: aktion.digitalcourage.de/let… #Article13 #saveyourinternet
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SUCCESS! Your voice was heard! The EU Parliament rejected the #Copyright mandate by 318 to 278. Next battle: September. #SaveYourInternet #Article13 #CensorshipMachine
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👎🏾👎🏾 It's now official. #TERREG has been approved by @Europarl_EN without a vote in plenary. The Regulation that gives national authorities the power to censor online content without a judge's approval will enter into force in 1 year. edri.org/our-work/european-p…
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Midnight special! Not your average @edri tweet, but definitely worth mentioning. @pornhub is supporting #SaveYourInternet ! #Blackout21 #Pledge2019
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This morning, we found our Brussels office aka the #DigitalRightsHub wrapped in a #privacy-friendly offline advertisement by @DuckDuckGo. Is it a coincidence? In any case, we find it very fitting.
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New scandal around the dubious #CSAR proposal: @EUHomeAffairs is illegally microtargeting people with ads, based on religious and political beliefs. Millions of people have been microtargeted. @ThierryBreton, how can the European Commission’s own DG not walk the #DSA talk?
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🛑 Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance! 🛑 44 civil society orgs demand EU bodies and EU Member States stop the unlawful practice NOW. We say “No!” to permanent police lineups in public spaces. 1/10 edri.org/blog-ban-biometric-… #BanThisBS #Biometrics #Surveillance #FacialRecognition
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🚨🇬🇧 Next week's judgment is crucial for the future of privacy in Europe. Check out the interview with whistleblower @Snowden and stay tuned to learn more on 25 May by following @privacyint
The European Court of Human Rights' judgment on the 10 Human Rights Organisations case is due on 25 May (@ECHR_CEDH). We sat down with @Snowden last year to discuss what this case means for surveillance not only in the UK, but around the world. Watch here to get up to date!
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We reveal: Mr Claus confirms @NSAGov attack on NON database edri.org/santa-claus-confirm… @Snowden @USAgov
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1/8 🙅‍♀️ Debiasing AI is not a silver bullet! 🙅🏾‍♂️ EDRi's latest report by @AggieBalayn & @sedyst from @tudelft shows that EU policymakers must STOP framing AI harms as technical flaws in the design of the AI systems, which can be fixed by using tech or "debiasing" solutions.
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🚨An extremely wide range of experts have warned against the misguided & dangerous measures in the @EU_Commission's Child Sexual Abuse Material Regulation #CSAR. See the summary below. ↩️ Like this thread and pass it on!🧵 #StopScanningMe
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Great success! Around 100.000 citizens marching to #SaveYourInternet from #Article13. The @Europarl_EN needs to listen EU citizens when voting on Tuesday on the copyright Directive.
In Deutschland sind nach offiziellen Angaben bereits jetzt mehr als 100.000 Menschen auf der Strasse, um für ein offenes Internet, gegen Uploadfilter und für eine zeitgemäße Urheberrechtsreform zu demonstrieren. Das ist episch! Danke an alle. #Artikel13 #artikel13demo
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🚨 EU: Do not trade away our rights in the #AIAct! Civil society advocates and academics are calling on the @Europarl_EN, @EUCouncil & @EU_Commission to unequivocally reject attempts to legalise dangerous, discriminatory police AI 🧵 #DontTradeOurRights edri.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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European Commission defence of European rights sinks in an unsafe harbour. #safeharbor edri.org/european-commission…
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We urge @Europarl_EN to remove Parliament's tweets taking a side in the #copyright debate! Read our letter to the EP Secretary-General: edri.org/european-parliament… @AxelVossMdEP #SaveYourInternet #FixCopyright #CensopshipMachine #Pledge2019
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1/9 You might wonder what is the story of the #CensorshipMachine everyone is trying to #SaveYourInternet from. Let us tell you a tale of an awful idea (thread)
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1/6📣The Artificial Intelligence Act MUST put our #FundamentalRights first! Today, @EDRi & 114 civil society orgs launch a collective statement to call for an #AIAct that addresses the structural, societal, political & economic impacts of #AI uses. edri.org/our-work/civil-soci…
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1/5📢📅 Today 62 organisations demand #AIRedlines for applications of #ArtificialIntelligence that threaten fundamental #HumanRights in an @edri open letter to the @EU_Commission. 👇🏿👇🏿 edri.org/our-work/civil-soci…
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1/4 🚨#FacialRecognition in public spaces turns us all into walking barcodes. @edri is joining @BigBrotherWatch, @hrw and 177 civil society groups & experts from around the world to say: 🚫Stop Facial Recognition surveillance now🚫 Read our statement ⤵️ edri.org/our-work/global-civ…
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36 EU lawmakers are calling on Member States to REJECT the new #ChatControl proposal ❌ In an open letter, lawmakers have echoed what we've been saying: the proposal is incompatible with our fundamental rights & will undermine our security🙅‍♀️ Read more⤵️ yahoo.com/news/politicians-r…
Der Vorschlag zur #Chatkontrolle ist nicht mit unserem 🇪🇺 Bekenntnis zu sicherer Kommunikation vereinbar, sondern setzt diese leichtfertig aufs Spiel. Ein flächendeckendes & anlassloses Scannen von Chats ist mit uns Parlamentarier*innen nicht zu machen: n-tv.de/politik/Widerstand-g…
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1/3 📢Ministers in Portugal are secretly pushing for #BiometricMassSurveillance. Weeks before the National Assembly will be dissolved, the government wants them to quickly approve a law, without public consultation or evidence. 🙅🏽‍♀️This goes against #EU's democratic values! 🙅🏼‍♂️
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BREAKING: United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression raises major concerns about EU #Copyright Directive. #article13 #fixcopyright #CensorshipMachine nitter.app/davidakaye/status/1007…
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1/8 🚨Today is a worrying day for all of us using online private communications: our personal chats & messages are at risk of being spied on at all times, as the @EU_Commission just proposed a Regulation laying down rules to detect & remove #CSAM online 🧵👇🏾
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Diego Naranjo @DNBSevilla becomes EDRi's new Head of Policy edri.org/diego-naranjo-becom… 🎉🙌
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Thanks to the thousands of citizens marching yesterday and all others last months calling, meeting, emailing or tweeting at @Europarl_EN. You're amazing! 48 hours left to contact your MEPs and ask them to #SaveYourInternet from #Article13 saveyourinternet.eu/
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1/4 🚨Times of crisis must NOT be an excuse for undermining human rights! In the closed-door #DigitalServicesAct negotiations, the @EU_Commission proposed a “crisis response mechanism” that would give itself the powers to unilaterally declare an EU-wide state of emergency.
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The list of organisations and individual experts opposing the #CensorshipMachine is amazing. Read below the different groups sounding the alarm and trying to #SaveYourInternet
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It's a green day today! EU representatives take a break from Brussels and go home to their countries for political events. Go to Pledge2019.eu and sign up for a call reminder for when they are back, after the weekend. #SaveYourInternet #article13 #Pledge2019
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We found our new Executive Director! A warm welcome, Claire Fernandez @CFerKic - EDRi is looking forward to working with you! edri.org/welcoming-our-new-e…
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1/3 🧐How many @EUCourtPress statements are needed for Member States to learn that general storage of data hinders people's right to #Privacy & #DataProtection? Today, the Advocate-General Campos Sánchez-Bordona made that clear once again.
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We are appalled by the latest Pegasus spyware revelations showing democratic EU governments targeting MEPs, national politicians and activists. EDRi’s and other NGOs’ names have been misused by govts for phishing attacks. 🔎📖citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catala… #CatalanGate
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1/10 @EU_Commission needs to understand that playing with online privacy & security affects EVERYONE. @edri alongside 70+ civil society & professional organisations urge the withdrawal of the CSA Regulation & call for an alternative that is compatible with EU #FundamentalRights👇🏿
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We need to stop #Article13 and work together in order to create a better European Union! Join the upcoming Action Week, this is our final chance! You can count on us! Can we count on you? edri.org/join-the-ultimate-a… #SaveYourInternet #FixCopyright #Pledge2019
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The EU Commission finally admits *on record* that its #CSARegulation proposal would 👏break 👏 encryption, as Vera Jourova's comments at @EU_EDPS Summit. This contradicts 3 years of @YlvaJohansson's : "#CSAR doesn't break encryption." #ChatControl #EDPS20 #StopScanningMe
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1/9 🚨Treating people like suspects is the EU's new normal🚨 @edri's new report by @EdinburghIJI reveals that people in Germany, the Netherlands & Poland are being unlawfully monitored & tracked via their faces & bodies. 👉🏾Get your hands on the evidence: edri.org/our-work/new-edri-r…
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Victory on #ePrivacy! @Europarl_EN has supported the mandate for trilogues & endorsed citizens rights: 318 for, 280 against, 18 abstentions
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🇫🇷📸 France can no longer legitimately talk about democratically shared values, says EDRi member @laquadrature. The country's highest court validated mass surveillance in the long term and set a precedent for other member states to do the same. #EDRigram: edri.org/our-work/frances-hi…
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European Digital Rights (EDRi) calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19. Read our network's recommendations: edri.org/covid19-edri-corona… #coronavirus #Covid_19 #humanrights #digitalrights
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A website is almost like a living thing. ❓ How do you ethically develop one? 👉 Find the answer in our new #EthicalWebDev #guide! edri.org/ethical-web-dev 💙 Special thanks to: @desdelaespesura @why0hy @sidnext2none @ndrsju @maddish @christalib_ @AchimKla @LauraKalbag @aral
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UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression @davidakaye declares the following in regards to #uploadfilters. #SaveYourInternet #Pledge2019 #FixCopyright #Article13
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1/9 🚨 As @Europarl_EN gets ready to vote on the #AIAct, MEPs MUST put people first. ❌ We are calling for a BAN on all AI systems posing an unacceptable risk to #FundamentalRights
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1/4🚨#AIAct🚨How are the AI Act trilogues progressing on fundamental rights? As tensions arose last week on foundation models, a major concern is still how far civil society’s demands are being met? Here’s our understanding of the status of fundamental rights demands:
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So... it turns out it was indeed all about filters. Who could have wondered? #SaveYourInternet #FixCopyright
After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters tdrt.io/hgG
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5 MEPs made the difference and the @Europarl_EN did not even get to vote to reject #Article13. Press release coming out soon #saveyourinternet
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🚨Together with over 40 organisations, we call on the EU to ban biometric mass surveillance. 🙅🏼‍♀️Are YOU with us? ✍️🏾Sign for a BAN now. 🛑Shape your future. 💪🏽Defend your humanity. 🙅🏿‍♀️Secure your dignity. #ReclaimYourFace reclaimyourface.eu/
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1/6 ✊🏾We need an #AIAct that puts people first and prioritises our #FundamentalRights. 🚨150 civil society orgs are calling on @Europarl_EN, @EU_Commissionand & @EUCouncil to ensure just that as EU institutions kick off negotiations. Read our statement: edri.org/our-work/civil-soci…
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1/6 🚨In a public statement published today, 192 organisations & individuals call on EU policymakers to protect the rights of people on the move in the #AIAct. Read our statement: edri.org/our-work/civil-soci…
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1/4 📢Today, 64 orgs & experts urge the @EU_Commission to halt proposals for using #AgeVerification tools when implementing #DigitalServicesAct & #eIDAS. Evidence & lived experiences show these tools are dangerous, discriminatory & unsafe. READ MORE: edri.org/our-work/open-lette…
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1/ 9 Today, 51 digital rights, human rights & social justice orgs call on Commissioner @dreynders @EU_Commission to ban #BiometricMassSurveillance practices that secretly spy on everyone in the upcoming #ArtificialIntelligence legislation. edri.org/our-work/european-c…
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We would like to thank @MichalBoni @ComodiniCachia @Senficon @C_Stihler @YanaToom @lidiageringer @woelken @Isa_Adinolfi @michelreimon @MarietjeSchaake and many other MEPs for their courage all these years to #SaveYourInternet and defend civil society. Keep up the fight!
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The fight against #Article13 continues, with new items in the toolbox! #PLEDGE2019 is now part of #SaveYourInternet - Contact your MEPs ahead of the EU elections and ask them to say "NO" to #uploadfilters! edri.org/saveyourinternet-eu…
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1/2 👏Congratulations to @EP_Justice for today rejecting measures that would undermine #encryption & amount to mass scanning of private messages. EDRi analysis coming soon 📢 @FZarzalejos @paultang @echo_pbreyer @ErnstCornelia @hildevautmans @vincesofo @TardinoAnnalisa
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1/3 🎉Today, members & close EDRi friends are coming to Brussels to celebrate @edri's 20th anniversary. We'll be joined by the EU Commission's Executive Vice-President @vestager & @signalapp's President @mer__edith and many more speakers.
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🔥German government calls for European BAN on biometric mass surveillance, endorsing @EDRi co-led @ReclaimYourFace demand!🔥 Commitments must be backed by actions & laws. All harmful uses of AI should be prohibited in EU #AIAct. More: reclaimyourface.eu/new-germa… #Koalitionsvertrag
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Great victory of #EDRi member @freiheitsrechte et al. The 🇩🇪 Constitutional Court today declared certain #surveillance powers of the Federal Intelligence #BND to be unconstitutional. Human rights apply even "when conducting telecoms surveillance of foreigners in other countries".
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#France: the Conseil d'État banned the use of police drones for #surveillance purposes in #Paris. A victory of @laquadrature to ensure legal safeguards when deploying police technologies during the #COVID19 crisis. edri.org/france-first-victor… #EDRigram @UnGarage @technopolice_fr
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1/8 A LEAKED opinion of the @EU_Commission by @Contexte sounds the alarm for #MassSurveillance of online private communications🚨. By revealing worrying statements from the Commission’s internal review on the upcoming #CSAM proposal, it confirms our fears for #HumanRights 👇🏿
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1/3🚨Will #BigTech lobby undermine the #AIAct? 📢As we enter final negotiations, @edri, @accessnow, @beuc & 115 civil society orgs are calling on EU lawmakers to close a dangerous loophole in the high-risk classification process of #AIAct. Read our call⤵️edri.org/our-work/civil-soci…
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1/ Our #AdTech explanation guide is out! We unveil how the time you spend on the internet profits an advertisement-driven, invasive & centralised economy. “Free” online services make profits by buying & selling your most intimate data with just one click. edri.org/our-work/surveillan…
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1/ Today, EDRi & 60+ human rights organisations and journalist federations urge MEPs in an open letter to vote against the #TERREG proposal and protect #FreeSpeech. edri.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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🚨LEAKED: @POLITICOEurope has leaked the draft AI Act report by the Civil Liberties & the Internal Markets Committees of the European Parliament. FOLLOW this thread for hot takes on the report by @edri's policy experts @sarahchander & @ellajakubowska1 starting NOW 🧵

ALT "European Parliament's AI Act draft report: Hot takes with EDRi's policy advisors"

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Today is the day! The vote deciding to #SaveYourInternet or to implement the #CensorshipMachine will start around 12.30h. There's still time for a last round of calls! You can follow the livestream here: europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/e…
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In a tragic twist of events, it turns out there WAS a majority to vote on Arts.11&13 but 13 MEPs pressed the wrong button. It seems only the records can be corrected, not the outcome #SaveYourInternet
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Thank you again to everyone single person, organisation, company, academic expert, international organisation and NGO who have played their part in the EU #copyright discussions so far. A good reform is possible, with respectful & balanced debate.
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1/8 On 1 March, @edri's @ellajakubowska1 spoke at the Digital Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag's public hearing. The topic was the controversial #ChatControl/Child Sexual Abuse Regulation #CSAR proposal currently being negotiated at EU level. Here is what happened:🧵
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1/5 🚨Today, with @Europarl_EN's final plenary vote, the EU has inched one step closer to the formal adoption of the long-awaited #AIAct. However, civil society is not satisfied with the outcome because the #AIAct missed the mark when it comes to protecting our #HumanRights 🙅‍♀️
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1/2 📢On 26 September, in Brussels, EDRi will welcome @signalapp's President @mer__edith, @CommissionerHR @Dunja_Mijatovic & @EPFL_en's @carmelatroncoso among other top experts & policymakers to discuss encryption, surveillance & privacy. Learn more➡️edri.org/take-action/events/…
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⚖️"#Uploadfilters are a threat to our fundamental rights. In its guidelines on #Article17 the @EU_Commission must ensure that there is no obligation to impose upload filters & that effective redress mechanisms exist" say @DNBSevilla & member @Senficon edri.org/upload-filters-stil…
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🚨👀We just released an in-depth analysis of the EU's #AI Regulation and why major changes are needed to stop discrimination and mass surveillance! Includes thoughts from across the @edri network! Read now: edri.org/our-work/eus-ai-law…
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High Court in Denmark delivered a ruling that internet service providers are not required to disclose subscriber information in file sharing cases. #EDRigram @je5perl @itpof edri.org/danish-high-court-r…
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#Privacy-oriented web browsers that support #DNS encryption and other security measures are essential for the establishment of an ethical online environment that protects #DigitalRights. edri.org/web-browser-privacy… @article19org @torproject #EDRigram #dataprotection #EthicalWebDev
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🚨@EP_SingleMarket and @EU_Justice are voting on the #AIAct this week. MEPs, you must prioritise #FundamentalRights and protect people affected by AI systems ✊🏾 We've made it easy for you to do the right thing. Here's how you should vote to put people first in the AI Act ⤵️
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🚨Emotion recognition & biometric categorisation tech is: ❌ racist ❌ discriminatory ❌ downright creepy None of us are safe from it. 🙅🏽‍♀️We urge MEPs to put a stop to these practices when when they vote next week on the #AIAct #ReclaimYourFace #BanBMS
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Open letter - Together with 53 organisations, we urge the EU Council: Stand for citizen’s rights and the European digital economy in the #copyright negotiations! edri.org/letter-to-the-counc… #SaveYourInternet
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Upload filters strike back, but we still have a chance to #SaveYourInternet. Get your phone charged tonight, because we're going to make a lot of calls starting tomorrow. Time to kill the #CensorshipMachine! SaveYourInternet.eu
BREAKING: EU negotiators say they have struck a deal to approve #Article13 and #Article11, despite massive public opposition. Now only the EU Parliament can stop it. Contact your MEP now! europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/s…
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Thanks to everyone contacting us. Everyone in @edri Brussels office is safe and still defending our society's freedom.
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With this disinfo tactic, European Commission's DG Home @EUHomeAffairs is secretly & illegally manipulating public opinion in countries oposing its unlawful #CSAR proposal: Belgium, Czechia, Netherlands +many more. The Commission should be neutral in negotiations! @ThierryBreton
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1/6🚫Europol's proposed reform goes the wrong way🚫 The @EU_Commission is pushing for more powers to harvest our personal data w/o even proving that these privacy-abusive practices actually reduce crime. ✨Democracy✨Justice✨Privacy✨must✨define✨Europol’s✨mandate
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We are very proud of our colleagues @sarahchander & @ellajakubowska1! They are named today as POLITICO's 28 power players behind Europe’s tech revolution, for their work on AI and biometric mass surveillance. 👏👏 politico.eu/list/tech-28-cla… #ReclaimYourFace #AIA #EDRi
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Our new report Technological Testing Grounds is out! Based on interviews with over 40 refugees and people on the move, @mozilla fellow @_PMolnar explores the human rights impacts and systemic harms of #BorderTech experiments Read it here: frama.link/BorderTech
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Privacy and security go hand in hand! Today, along with @accessnow @article19org @EFF @epicenter_works @Homo_Digitalis_ @FITUGeV & Foundation for Information Policy Research we ask the German Presidency to protect #encryption. frama.link/EncryptionRespons…
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EDRi together with a coalition of 78 orgs advocating against #TERREG are disappointed that no vote will take place at the European Parliament on such a rights-violating piece of legislation. More updates to follow. Link to open letter: edri.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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1/3 🚨Recent @POLITICOEurope leak revealed that US & EU officials have agreed to cooperate on measures to turn public opinion against #encryption. Experts' statements by @edri & @globalencrypt have called out against this plan ➡️edri.org/our-work/eu-us-plan… ➡️globalencryption.org/2023/04…
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📢Today @sarahchander and @ellajakubowska1 takeover the @edri twitter account to give you their first impressions of the #EUAI Regulation as soon as it is out! Stay tuned for the latest impressions from civil society.
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1/2 🎂Happy Birthday to the EU #AIAct! 2 years ago the @EU_Commission gave birth to the AI Act proposal. The @Europarl_EN is now close to reaching its position. We’ll celebrate when…
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We have 17 days to stop EU's #CensorshipMachine . Join our coordinated calls against Article13 and make your voice heard now! edri.org/coordinated-action-… #SaveYourInternet #FixCopyright #DeleteArticle13
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Great news from France! The country's highest administrative court banned the use of drones to monitor protests in Paris, responding to a complaint from @EDRi member, @laquadrature . Congratulations! nitter.app/laquadrature/status/13… #PPLSécuritéGlobale #LoiSecuriteGlobale
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EDRi members, staff, and our Board @fielderana, @szymielewicz, @ShmaeganM welcome the three new Board members: @gbeltra, @socialhack and @whvholst! We're looking forward to working with you!
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We are delighted to announce that our Executive Director @why0hy is among the winners of @EFF's Internet Pioneer Awards 2018. Congrats and well deserved, Joe! eff.org/press/releases/fair-…
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1/4 🚨Yet another @EUCourtPress statement that general storage of data undermines people's right to #Privacy & #DataProtection. It's about time 🇪🇺EU States listen:🚫 #MassSurveillance data retention is prohibited by EU law. 🇩🇪Germany @die_regierung, will you set a good example?
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