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1/2 Amidst skyrocketing industry lobbying & the far-right surge in Europe, civil society's agenda is key.🚨
On 1 October, we'll open a dialogue with recently elected EU decision-makers at the
#EUTechSociety
Summit.
The draft programme is out now:
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New
#TiSA
leaks: The proposals on privatised
#censorship
are particularly worrying.
@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:
#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:
#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.
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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
#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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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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🚨 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
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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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We can still win! Next steps for the
#CopyrightDirective
#SaveYourInternet
#FixCopyright
#CensorshipMachine
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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:
@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.
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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
. 👇🏿👇🏿
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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 ⤵️
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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⤵️
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:
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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
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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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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
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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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"We don't need more AI ethics" say
@edri
&
@accessnow
responding to the
@Europarl_EN
"framework for ethical aspects of AI". Instead we need LAWS enabling strong governance & concrete fundamental rights protections.
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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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It's a green day today! EU representatives take a break from Brussels and go home to their countries for political events.
Go to and sign up for a call reminder for when they are back, after the weekend.
#SaveYourInternet
#article13
#Pledge2019
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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.
🔎📖
#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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Press Release: Censorship machine takes over EU’s internet
#PressRelease
#CensorshipMachine
#Copyright
#Article13
#SaveYourInternet
#Pledge2019
#FixCopyright
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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?
#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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Victory on
#ePrivacy
!
@Europarl_EN
has supported the mandate for trilogues & endorsed citizens rights: 318 for, 280 against, 18 abstentions
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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:
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European Digital Rights (EDRi) calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19.
Read our network's recommendations:
#coronavirus
#Covid_19
#humanrights
#digitalrights
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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
:
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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
!
💙 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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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
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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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[1] European Parliament negotiators call for a prohibition on predictive policing!🔥
As reported in
@euractiv
, leads on the
#AIAct
@brandobenifei
+
@IoanDragosT
call for a full BAN on
#PredictivePolicing
, a key demand of civil society:
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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:
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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
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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
!
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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.
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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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🔥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:
#Koalitionsvertrag
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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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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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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".
Live aus
#Karlsruhe
: Erste Entscheidung zu
#Auslandsgeheimdienst
seit 20 Jahren:
#BVerfG
erklärt weltweite
#Internet
#Massen
überwachung des
#Bundesnachrichtendienst
#BND
in derzeitiger Form für
#verfassungswidrig
!
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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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#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.
#EDRigram
@UnGarage
@technopolice_fr
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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
.
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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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🚨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 🧵
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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:
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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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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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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
Press Release: Censorship machine takes over EU’s internet
#PressRelease
#CensorshipMachine
#Copyright
#Article13
#SaveYourInternet
#Pledge2019
#FixCopyright
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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
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1/5 🚨The final EU Parliament position on
#AIAct
is here 🚨
Some wins for
#FundamentalRights
but also missed opportunities to protect and empower people.
Read our statement ⤵️
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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➡️
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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
.
@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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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!
#SaveYourInternet
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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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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
!
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!
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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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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:
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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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📢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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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
.
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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
➡️
➡️
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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. 👏👏
#ReclaimYourFace
#AIA
#EDRi
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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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The investigation, based on X Transparency reports, is available here:
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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!
#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!
#PPLS
écuritéGlobale
#LoiSecuriteGlobale
Il n'y aura plus de drone en manifestation : le Conseil d'État vient de les interdire à Paris et de poser des conditions qui remettent largement en cause leur tentative d'autorisation dans la
#PPLS
écuritéGlobale.
Victoire totale. Passez de bonnes fêtes <3
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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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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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🚨
@EU_Commission
is planning to stop funding for
#FreeSoftware
projects.
This will be a blow to
#DigitalRights
& the health of the internet.
The future of an open internet needs public funding ✊🏾
Read more from
@fsfe
and find out how you can help ⤵️
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1/7 📣 The Artificial Intelligence Act MUST put our
#FundamentalRights
first! But is this the case in the recently published IMCO-LIBE draft Report on the AI Act?
Civil society has checked that for you, see our statement here:
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🚨
@Europarl_EN
is voting on the
#AIAct
tomorrow🚨
MEPs must prioritise
#FundamentalRights
and protect people affected by AI systems ✊🏾
Here's a handy voting guide to help MEPs do the right thing and put people first in the AI Act⤵️
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