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We all have the right to keep personal information online private and secure. European Digital Right
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| Aug 25, 2026 | EU-US Border Deal Leak Exposes Political and Religious Records Under Non-Binding Rules | By Joshua Mitchell Published: Aug 25 2026, 10:38 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 18, 2026 | EU e-Evidence Regulation Takes Effect: Tech Companies Replace Courts as Rights Gatekeepers | By Scott McCain Published: Aug 18 2026, 9:32 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Poland Passes Digital Services Act, Adds Lawmakers to Independence-Required Watchdog | By Collin Mercer Published: Aug 07 2026, 11:37 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Как появилось законодательство о борьбе со спамом — и что действует в России | В конце 2024 года спам составлял почти половину мирового почтового трафика — 47,27%. Подобные рассылки съедают ресурсы серверов, скрывают мошеннические схемы и обходятся бизнесу потерянными часами продуктивности. Технические фильтры помогаю... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Italy’s Own Privacy Watchdog Says Its New Police Facial Recognition Decree Violates EU AI Act | By Mark Rutherford Published: Jul 30 2026, 7:41 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Russia Charged Telegram’s Durov With Terrorism Over Refused Content Takedowns | By Adrian Parham Published: Jul 29 2026, 6:58 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Internet Age-Gates Are A Growing Global Threat | The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world continue to introduce and implemen... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | GDPR Personal Data Definition Under Fire: EU Privacy Watchdogs Debate Digital Omnibus Risks | By John Bright Published: Jun 08 2026, 11:36 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Apr 1, 2026 | The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems. | Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of strict EU privacy regulations. Meanwhile, her... |
| Dec 28, 2025 | Соотношение свободы и приватности с безопасностью | Данная статья была написана и впервые опубликована осенью 2023 года. В ней разбираются мифы о свободном программном обеспечении и критикуются аргументы любителей проприетарного ПО. За прошедшее время статья нисколько не потеряла своей актуа... |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality | Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those are realities... |
| Jun 12, 2025 | UK Data Use and Access Bill Set to Become Law | After months of intense parliamentary wrangling, the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill has cleared both Houses of Parliament and now awaits Royal Assent – at which point it will become the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. The wide-ranging legi... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Apple Appeals DMA, Says EU Has ‘Deeply Flawed Rules’ That ‘Stifle Innovation’ | Apple is appealing the EU’s demands to allow third-party hardware to connect with its platforms. The European Commission believes the company is currently in breach of the Digital Markets Act, arguing that restricting users from connecting ... |
| Jan 25, 2025 | The Tug of War: Big Tech Regulation and Healthcare Access in America | In the heart of Europe, a storm brews over Big Tech. Advocacy groups are raising alarms. They claim the European Commission is too lenient on giants like Apple and Google. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) was supposed to level the playing fiel... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | The Fragile Fortress of Privacy: Navigating the Crossroads of AI and Encryption | In the digital age, privacy is a fortress under siege. Recent revelations about vulnerabilities in popular communication platforms and the looming presence of artificial intelligence (AI) threaten to erode the walls of this fortress. As we ... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Станет ли ИИ катастрофой для сквозного шифрования? | Недавно я обнаружил потрясающую новую статью How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI, написанную группой исследователей из Нью-Йоркского и Корнеллского университетов. Я очень рад прочтению этой статьи, потому что, хоть не согласен с... |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Advocacy Groups Criticise European Commission for Weak Regulation of Apple, Google | European politicians and advocacy groups are adamant that the region’s legislation is not hardline enough to dismantle the monopolies of Big Tech companies. In the last week, two open letters have been penned to regulators criticising how A... |
| Oct 8, 2024 | EU’s Commission’s Anti-Encryption Plans On The Ropes (Again) After Rejection By The Dutch Gov’t | The EU Commission is the definition of insanity. It has tried for years to convince all EU members the best way to fight crime is to undermine the security and privacy of millions of EU residents. And, for years, it has failed to make an ar... |
| Jul 27, 2024 | ИИ-видеонаблюдение на Олимпиаде вызвало негативную реакцию борцов за конфиденциальность | «Они всегда используют их [массовые мероприятия — прим. ред.] как троянских коней, чтобы попытаться внедрить технологии более широко», — цитирует главу отдела политики European Digital Rights Эллу Якубовскую Bloomberg. В Париже видеокамеры ... |
| Jul 5, 2024 | EU Tech Policy Brief: July 2024 | Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe‘s Tech Policy Brief. This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe, the U.S., and internationally, and gives CDT’s perspec... |
| Jun 19, 2024 | Amazon тестировала свои камеры с ИИ на ЖД-вокзалах Великобритании | Amazon протестировала свои камеры с искусственным интеллектом на железнодорожных вокзалах Великобритании. Системы отсканировали лица тысячи людей в течение двух лет. В дальнейшем полученные данные, вероятно, будут использованы в рекламных ц... |
| May 10, 2024 | The European Data Protection Board’s Opinion on “Pay or Okay” Models – Surveillance-based Advertising is on Borrowed Time | Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in 2018, civil society has hoped—and industry has feared—that its enforcement would spell the end of surveillance-based advertising and the ubiquitous tracking it requires... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | European police chiefs target E2EE in latest demand for ‘lawful access’ | In the latest iteration of the never-ending (and always head-scratching) crypto wars, Graeme Biggar, the director general of the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), has called on Instagram’s parent, Meta, to rethink its continued rollout of e... |
| Apr 20, 2024 | CDT Europe’s AI Bulletin: April 2024 | Also authored by CDT Europe’s AI Policy Fellow Jonathan Schmidt. Policymakers in Europe are hard at work on all things artificial intelligence, and we’re here to keep you updated. We’ll cover laws and policies that relate to AI, and their i... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Meta’s ‘consent or pay’ tactic must not prevail over privacy, EU rights groups warn | Nearly two dozen civil society groups and non-profits have written an open letter to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), urging it not to endorse a strategy used by Meta that they say is intended to bypass the EU’s privacy protection... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Europe eyes LinkedIn’s use of data for ads in another DSA ask | Microsoft-owned professional social network, LinkedIn, is the latest to get a formal request for information (RFI) from the EU. The Commission, which oversees larger platforms’ compliance with a subset of risk management, transparency and a... |
| Dec 12, 2023 | EU’s AI Act: Europe’s New Rules for Artificial Intelligence | The European Union reached a provisional agreement on its much-anticipated Artificial Intelligence Act on Dec. 8, becoming the first global power to pass rules governing the use of AI. The legislation outlines EU-wide measures designed to e... |
| Dec 8, 2023 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules | After marathon ‘final’ talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence. The file was originally proposed back in Apr... |
| Nov 17, 2023 | Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | What price privacy? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs required to develop and maintain its pro-privacy systems which shield user data from tracking by default. The blog post, p... |
| Oct 27, 2023 | A group behind Stable Diffusion wants to open source emotion-detecting AI | In 2019, Amazon upgraded its Alexa assistant with a feature that enabled it to detect when a customer was likely frustrated — and respond with proportionately more sympathy. If a customer asked Alexa to play a song and it queued up the wron... |
| Oct 6, 2023 | Proton’s CEO On Why They Continue To Take Bitcoin And The Future Of Encryption | ( Boston, MA,05/30/14) Andy Yen, cofounder of ProtonMail. (see Jordan Graham story) (Staff photo ... [+] by Stuart Cahill) (Photo by Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)MediaNews Group via Getty Images |
| May 11, 2023 | EU lawmakers back transparency and safety rules for generative AI | In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc’s draft AI legislation — including agreeing a set of requirements for so called foundational models which underpin generative AI ... |
| Nov 3, 2022 | Qatar to Deploy Biometric Surveillance to Monitor Soccer Fans During FIFA World Cup 2022: Is it Accurate? | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 03 November 2022, 09:11 am The upcoming FIFA World Cup 2022, which is scheduled to take place in Doha, Qatar, on Nov. 20, expects to see over a million viewers across eight stadiums. Earlier, the event organizers sa... |
| Oct 3, 2022 | Don’t Assume China’s AI Regulations Are Just a Power Play | In March, new regulations entered into effect in China that require companies deploying recommendation algorithms to file details about those algorithms with the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). In August, the CAC published summari... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | The EU’s Proposal on CSAM Is a Dangerous Misfire | In his recent post, Robert Gorwa lays out how the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, an odd part of the European Commission, came to put forward a proposal on combating child sexual abuse material (CSAM). His trenchant anal... |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Musk's Twitter ambitions to collide with Europe's tech rules | A hands-off approach to moderating content at Elon Musk's Twitter could clash with ambitious new laws in Europe meant to protect users from disinformation, hate speech and other harmful material. Musk, who describes himself as a "free ... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | When Platforms Do the State’s Bidding, Who Is Accountable? Not the Government, Says Israel’s Supreme Court | Around the world, law enforcement bodies known as Internet Referral Units (or IRUs) are asking platforms like Facebook to delete posts, videos, photos and comments posted by their users. Platforms are complying, citing their own discretiona... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | The state of AI ethics: The principles, the tools, the regulations | Join today's leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. What do we talk about when we talk about AI ethics? Just like AI itself, definitions for AI ethics seem to abound. A definition that seems to have garner... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | The state of AI ethics: The principles, the tools, the regulations | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! What do we talk about when we talk about AI ethic... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | EU Parliament's 'More Thoughtful' Approach To Regulating The Internet Still A Complete Disaster | For a while now, the EU has been working on its latest big update to internet regulations, mostly under the umbrella of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Multiple people who have been following the process there have noted how much more thoug... |
| Dec 28, 2021 | Что происходит с сетевым нейтралитетом в Европе | В нашем блоге мы подробно освещали ситуацию с отменой и частичным возвратом правил net neutrality в США. Сегодня посмотрим, как обстоят дела в Евросоюзе. Там произошли два события, которые могут отразиться на работе провайдеров.Unsplash / d... |
| Nov 30, 2021 | Europe’s AI Act falls far short on protecting fundamental rights, civil society groups warn | Civil society has been poring over the detail of the European Commission’s proposal for a risk-based framework for regulating applications of artificial intelligence which was proposed by the EU’s executive back in April. The verdict of ove... |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Обзор рисков телеком-отрасли | Хотя телекоммуникационную отрасль принято относить к ИТ-направлению, в ней использует множество самостоятельных технологий, которые сложно обозначить как ИТ в чистом виде. Такая неоднозначность вызывает разные подходы к оценке рисков. Напри... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence Act: What Is the European Approach for AI? | On April 21, the European Commission unveiled the first-ever legal framework on artificial intelligence (AI): the Artificial Intelligence Act. The extensive AI Act addresses the risks stemming from the various uses of AI systems and aims to... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | EU’s Google-Fitbit antitrust decision deadline pushed into 2021 | The deadline for Europe to make a call on the Google -Fitbit merger has been pushed out again — with EU regulators now having until January 8, 2021, to take a decision. The latest change to the provisional deadline, spotted earlier by Reute... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | EU’s Article 17 Consultation Reinvigorates ‘Upload Filter’ Debate | Last year there were fierce protests against the new EU Copyright Directive which, according to opponents, would result in broad upload filters on the web. Despite this pushback, the directive passed, and individual EU member states began w... |
| Jun 5, 2020 | A warm welcome to Heini | We are very pleased to welcome to our team Heini Järvinen, a multidisciplinary communications professional with more than a decade of experience in strategic comms, graphic design and layouts, social media, content writing and editing, pres... |
| May 28, 2019 | Report Says EU ISPs Are Happily Ignoring Net Neutrality Rules | A few years ago, the European Union passed some fairly decent net neutrality rules that went notably further than the FCC’s 2015 rules we just discarded here in the States. They not only prohibited ISPs from unjustly blocking, throttling, o... |
| Mar 25, 2019 | Huge Protests Across Europe Protest Article 13; Politician Lies And Claims They Were Paid To Be There | As expected, people took to the streets in the EU this week to protest the EU Copyright Directive, the censorship filters of Article 13, and the snippet tax in Article 11. Most of the protests took place in Germany, where reports are that o... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | Internet Blackout Coming To Show The EU Parliament It's Not Just 'Bots' Concerned About Article 13 | Last week Glyn mentioned that the German Wikipedia had announced plans to “go dark” this Thursday to protest Articles 11 and 13 of the EU Copyright Directive. And now it appears that a whole bunch of other websites will join in the protest ... |
| Mar 18, 2019 | EU gov’t and public health sites are lousy with adtech, study finds | A study of tracking cookies running on government and public sector health websites in the European Union has found commercial adtech to be operating pervasively even in what should be core not-for-profit corners of the Internet. The resear... |
| Oct 7, 2018 | ePrivacy: An overview of Europe’s other big privacy rule change | Gather round. The EU has a plan for a big update to privacy laws that could have a major impact on current Internet business models. Um, I thought Europe just got some new privacy rules? They did. You’re thinking of the General Data Protect... |
| Sep 14, 2018 | EU Continues To Kill The Open Web: Massive Fines For Sites That Don't Censor Within An Hour | The EU really seems quite hellbent on absolutely destroying the open internet. Just as the EU Parliament was voting to approve the EU Copyright Directive, requiring that much of the internet be licensed and curated, rather than open for any... |
| Jul 5, 2018 | EU Parliament Votes To Step Back From The Abyss On Copyright For Now | The last few days (and weeks) we’ve had plenty of articles about the EU’s attempt to undermine the fundamental aspects of the internet with its Copyright Directive, including a snippet tax and the requirement of upload filters. Supporters o... |
| Jun 20, 2018 | EU Parliamentary Committee Votes To Put American Internet Giants In Charge Of What Speech Is Allowed Online | As we’ve been writing over the past few weeks, the EU Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted earlier today on the EU’s new Copyright Directive. Within that directive were two absolutely horrible ideas that are dangerous to an ope... |
| Jun 20, 2018 | Europe takes another step towards copyright pre-filters for user generated content | In a key vote this morning the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements of a digital copyright reform package — which critics warn could have a chilling effect on Internet norms like memes... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ | September 2016, the European Commission published its proposal for a modernized copyright law. Among other things, it proposed measures to require online services to do more to fight piracy. Specifically, Article 13 of the proposed Copyrigh... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | Newly Disclosed Documents on the Five Eyes Alliance and What They Tell Us about Intelligence-Sharing Agreements | The United States is party to a number of international intelligence sharing arrangements—one of the most prominent being the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance. Born from spying arrangements forged during World War II, the Five Eyes alliance f... |
| Oct 17, 2017 | Abandon Proactive Copyright Filters, Huge Coalition Tells EU Heavyweights | Last September, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced plans to modernize copyright law in Europe. The proposals (pdf) are part of the Digital Single Market reforms, which have been under development for the past several year... |
| Sep 28, 2017 | EU Proposes Take Down Stay Down Approach to Combat Online Piracy | In recent years, many copyright holders have grown frustrated with pirates copies of their content (re)appearing on hundreds of online platforms. This problem is not restricted to pirate sites, but also affects other services where users ca... |
| Sep 28, 2017 | Tech giants pressured to auto-flag “illegal” content in Europe | Social media giants have again been put on notice that they need to do more to speed up removals of hate speech and other illegal content from their platforms in the European Union. The bloc’s executive body, the European Commission today a... |
| Sep 25, 2017 | Canada pushes back against U.S. copyright demands in NAFTA | The third round of negotiations over the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is underway right now in Ottawa, and EFF is there to represent you. It’s been a frustrating few days so far. Before explaining why, we... |
| Sep 25, 2017 | Canada pushes back against U.S. copyright demands in NAFTA | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The third round of negotiations over the moderniz... |
| Sep 22, 2017 | União Europeia ocultou estudo que mostra que a pirataria não reduz vendas legais | Encomende um estudo. Pague caro por ele. Receba o resultado. A conclusão é diferente do esperado. Melhor jogar tudo para debaixo do tapete, então. Nenhum órgão sério faria isso, certo? Mas a Comissão Europeia fez: a entidade pagou € 360 mil... |
| Sep 21, 2017 | EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales | One of the problems in the debate about the impact of unauthorized downloads on the copyright industry is the paucity of large-scale, rigorous data. That makes it easy for the industry to demand government policies that are not supported by... |
| Jul 17, 2017 | Latest EU Parliament Votes On Copyright: Fuck The Public, Give Big Corporations More Copyright | The weird and persistently silly copyright reform process in the EU Parliament continues to get more and more bizarre and stupid. Last month, we told you about the first committee vote, which we feared would be terrible, but turned out to b... |
| Jun 12, 2017 | EU Copyright Proposal: Not Good, But Not As Blatantly Terrible As It Could Have Been | We recently warned that there were efforts underway to make the EU’s copyright reform proposal even more draconian and ridiculous. Thankfully, the “compromise,” which wasn’t a compromise at all and would have made things much worse, was rej... |
| Mar 10, 2017 | EU Parliament Report Recommends Throwing Out Something Even Worse Than The Link Tax: Upload Filtering | Techdirt has just written about how a report from the European Parliament’s “rapporteur” — basically, the subject lead — on planned reforms to EU copyright law recommends dumping one of the most stupid ideas in the draft proposals, a link o... |
| Feb 28, 2017 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: “Alexa, Do You Have First Amendment Rights?” | Our guest for episode 152 is Paul Rosenzweig, and we tour the horizon with him. In the news roundup, Stephanie Roy outlines the deregulatory tangle around ISPs, privacy, security, and the FCC. Maury Shenk briefs us on the European legislati... |
| Feb 21, 2017 | Windows 10 privacy settings still worrying European watchdogs | European Union data protection authorities continue to have privacy-related concerns about Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, despite the company making some tweaks to privacy settings for users of the OS after criticism and concerns ... |
| Feb 8, 2017 | Anti-Whistleblower Provision Buried In Germany's New Data Retention Law Challenged In The Courts | Back in 2015, we noted that there was a global move to strengthen laws governing trade secrets. Enhanced protection was something that was included in the mercifully dead TPP agreement, and may well crop up again in the bilateral trade deal... |
| Nov 27, 2016 | Secret Trade Proposal Would Give Facebook Free Reign to Censor by Algorithm | Facebook has long drawn ire over its tendency to censor users' posts based on its opaque standards. But under leaked proposals from a controversial European trade deal, the social network and other online services could be granted legal imm... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | The EU's Proposed Copyright Directive Is Likely To Be A Wonderful Gift — For US Internet Giants | A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt ran through the catalog of horrors that make up the EU’s new Copyright Directive proposals, pointing out that they would be a general disaster in their current form. Of course, the misery would not be evenly ... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | EU Announces Absolutely Ridiculous Copyright Proposal That Will Chill Innovation, Harm Creativity | This is not a surprise given the earlier leaks of what the EU Commission was cooking up for a copyright reform package, but the end result is here and it’s a complete disaster for everyone. And I do mean everyone. Some will argue that it’s ... |
| Aug 31, 2016 | Open Internet Advocates Claim Victory in Europe Net Neutrality Fight | Open internet advocates celebrated on Tuesday after Europe's top telecom authority issued stronger-than-expected guidelines protecting net neutrality, the principle that all content on the internet should be equally accessible to consumers.... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | Top Internet Companies Agree To Vague Notice & Takedown Rules For 'Hate Speech' In The EU | It’s easy to say that “hate speech” is bad and that we, as a society, shouldn’t tolerate it. But, reality is a lot more complicated than that, which is why we’re concerned about various attempts to ban or stifle “hate speech.” In the US, co... |
| May 31, 2016 | YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Agree To Censor EU “Hate Speech” | In a disturbing agreement from the perspective of free speech advocates Tuesday, the European Commission and U.S. based social media companies Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft agreed to a “Code of Conduct” on “hate speech”. It’s pre... |
| May 19, 2016 | France Wants To Impose Its Laws On Google Worldwide | Google is fighting a ruling in France that requires Google to not just honor search removal requests from users in France, but to also censor those results worldwide, including the USA. In March, the French data protection regulator (CNIL) ... |
| May 3, 2016 | Greenpeace Publishes Leaked TTIP Documents… Show How Backroom Deals Are Driven By Lobbyists | We’ve written plenty of stories about the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership) agreement being worked on between the US and the EU. Think of it as the companion to the TPP, which covers the US and a variety of countries a... |
| Jan 9, 2016 | Risks And Red Lines As UK Prepares To Reforge Surveillance Law | On Thursday a half-day conference taking place in London’s Kings College heard a range of views about the U.K.’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill, currently before parliament. The government’s intention with the IP Bill is to pass legislatio... |
| Jan 4, 2016 | UK Open Rights Group Crowdfunds Mass Surveillance Explainer | Proof, if proof were needed, that democracy is a cat and mouse game of PR these days… Civil rights campaign organisation, the Open Rights Group, is running a crowdfunding campaign to try to raise £20,000 to fund a challenge to the U.K. gove... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Game over for real net neutrality? European Parliament votes in favor of disappointingly weak rules | Today, members of the European Parliament voted on a proposal (PDF) for rules affecting how Internet traffic is managed, following the European Commission's release of a draft agreement for regulation back in June. And Europe's lawmakers ha... |
| Aug 3, 2015 | Microsoft Launches Special 'Scott McNealy' Edition Of Windows | As you may have heard, a company called Microsoft has just launched version 10 of one of its products. Here on Techdirt, we don’t do software reviews — you might be able to find one or two online if you search a little — but we do like to a... |
| Jun 15, 2015 | European Ministers Agree To Disagree On Data Protection Reform | A long running reform of European data protection legislation which kicked off in 2012 has passed a big milestone today; ministers in the European Council have ostensibly agreed on a general approach — allowing for the debate to move to the... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | European Governments Seeking To Water Down EU's Proposed Data Protection Legislation | A major reform of the EU data protection rules has been grinding through the system for over three years now, subject to some of the fiercest lobbying yet seen in Europe. The original European Commission proposal was amended and accepted by... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | Germany's Infamous Copyright Warning Letters May Be Reined In — In A Few Years' Time | Germany has figured on Techdirt on a number of occasions because of the widespread use of warning letters there, sent out in large numbers in connection with alleged copyright infringement, and usually including a demand for money. Back in ... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | Finland Wants to Kill Crowdsourced Copyright Law | In 2012, Finland introduced a modification to its national constitution which allowed the public to provide input into the kind of laws being put in place. The changes, which allow citizens to put forward legislative proposals for Parliamen... |
| Sep 4, 2014 | Corporate Sovereignty Debate Heats Up In Australia | As Techdirt has reported, so far corporate sovereignty has emerged as the most contentious issue in the TTIP/TAFTA negotiations. In response to the growing public concern in Europe, the European Commission held a consultation on Investor-St... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Wilson's Weekend Whine: Snowden is right to be disgusted at UK 'emergency surveillance bill' | When we talk about surveillance online, it is almost always with reference to the NSA and activities in the US. But US citizens are far from being the only web users affected by surveillance. The NSA has long arms, but there are also simila... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | Why The European Commission's Consultation On Corporate Sovereignty Is A Sham (And How To Respond To It Anyway) | One measure of the resistance to the inclusion of corporate sovereignty provisions in TAFTA/TTIP is that the European Commission unexpectedly announced that it would be holding a three-month public consultation on this aspect in an attempt ... |
| Jun 4, 2014 | Denmark Repeals Data Retention Law's Logging Rules, Will Begin Discussions On What Should Replace Them | A couple of months ago, we wrote about an important decision handed down by the European Union Court of Justice (EUCJ) that declared the EU’s Data Retention Directive “invalid.” As we noted then, it was not entirely clear what national gove... |
| Mar 18, 2014 | EU net neutrality vote would let ISPs charge for Internet “fast lane” | Save The Internet reader comments 50 with 38 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit A European telecom law approved by a committee today is intended to prevent Internet service providers fr... |
| Oct 23, 2013 | EU Data Protection Proposal Gets Stronger, But With Big Loopholes | One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection. Because of its potential impact on major US companies like Google and Facebook, this has become one of the most fought... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law | Since last year the Finnish public has had the option of suggesting the kind of laws they want to be governed under. A recent modification of the national Constitution allows citizens to make legislative proposals for Parliament to vote on,... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | US Government Still Leaning On Europe To Dilute Data Protection Reform Proposals | The U.S. government is continuing to lobby Brussels to water down plans to reform privacy legislation. The European Union’s executive and legislative bodies are in the process of reforming the region’s data protection rules — a long overdue... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | Identifying Pirates Now Easier Following Swedish Supreme Court Decisions | Should rightsholders in the movie, music and publishing industries be able to obtain the personal details of alleged file-sharers from ISPs in order to pursue civil copyright cases against them? That answer to that question has been a long ... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | European Parliament Committee Calls For Creation Without Copyright To Become EU Policy | The European Union’s governmental machine is a complicated beast, with its intertwining of supra-national, national and party-political levels (if you’re interested in understanding how it works, the digital rights organization EDRI has put... |
| Sep 21, 2012 | EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity & No Obscure Languages (Because Terrorism!) | Back in February we wrote about the ominously-named “Clean IT” project in Europe, designed to combat the use of the Internet by terrorists. At that time, we suspected that this would produce some seriously bad ideas, but a leaked document o... |
| Jun 17, 2012 | ACTA Showdown Coming Up – Man Your Barricades | For reasons I wrote on TorrentFreak in my last article, ACTA lives or dies globally with the vote in the European Parliament. Therefore, that’s where all our energy should be directed to preserve the liberties of the net and ourselves. It i... |
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FAQ about European Digital Rights
When was European Digital Rights founded?
European Digital Rights was founded in 2002.
What has the press written about European Digital Rights?
Parsers VC has collected 117 articles mentioning European Digital Rights, among them “EU-US Border Deal Leak Exposes Political and Religious Records Under Non-Binding Rules” (Aug 25, 2026) and “EU e-Evidence Regulation Takes Effect: Tech Companies Replace Courts as Rights Gatekeepers” (Aug 18, 2026).
Is European Digital Rights still active?
Yes, European Digital Rights is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 19, 2026.