European Digital Rights

🚨Civil society file #DigitalServicesAct complaint against #X for targeting people with ads using their sensitive personal data 🚨 Yesterday, nine civil society organisations, including European Digital Rights, submitted a joint complaint against X for violating the #DSA by using people’s sensitive personal data for targeted ads 🧐 AI Forensics' research showed that X allowed major brands and public institutions to target people with online advertising based on especially sensitive personal data like political opinions, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and health conditions. This can lead to increased risk of discrimination, harm and violations of #FundamentalRights 🚫 Together, we are calling for Digital Services Coordinators and the European Commission to investigate X, and hold it to accountable ✊🏽 Read more about our complaint and AIF's research ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gssbX3gF 🩵 AI Forensics, Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe, Bits of Freedom, Fundacja Panoptykon, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V., Global Witness, Entropy, VoxPublic (association)

🎉 Registrations for #PrivacyCamp25 are now open! ✅ Tick this off your to-do list before the summer - secure your spot now at one of Europe's flagship #DigitalRights gathering. Register now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gaRsspZT Together, we'll explore ✊🏾 Resilience and Resistance in Times of Deregulation and Authoritarianism ✊🏾 🗓️ Join us on 30 September 2025, online and in Brussels. Want to do more than just attending the event? You can drive conversations and build community resistance against deregulation, authoritarianism and other challenges facing our digital #HumanRights by submitting a session proposal to be a part of the day's programme! 🚨 Deadline for submitting a session proposal for #PrivacyCamp25 is Monday, 21 July, 09.00 AM CEST🚨 Read more details and submit your session ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g3aQ34iq 🤝🏽 #PrivacyCamp25 is organised by European Digital Rights, in collaboration with our partners: the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Privacy Salon, the Institute for European Studies, ULB (IEE-ULB) at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, and the Racism and Technology Center.

✉️ Earlier this week, 34 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, Renew Europe, Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament, and The Left in the European Parliament sent a letter to the European Commission, expressing grave concerns about the #Israel adequacy decision that allows the transfer of personal data with the European Union. 🗣️ They have joined the voices of many others calling attention to this issue. In June 2025, European Digital Rights, Access Now and 17 other civil society organisations sent a second open letter to the European Commission, urging it to urgently reassess Israel’s adequacy status under the General Data Protection Regulation #GDPR. Since the Commission reconfirmed Israel’s status in January 2024, the situation has only worsened: ⚠️ Escalating #HumanRights violations in Gaza and the West Bank ⚠️ Expanded #surveillance and biometric repression ⚠️ Legal reforms undermining #DataProtection oversight ⚠️ Ongoing data flows to Israeli firms with ties to security services ⚠️ Use of AI-driven targeting systems in a context where the International Court of Justice has found plausible genocide ⚠️ Application of Israeli law to occupied territories – in breach of the EU’s own policy 🚨 Maintaining Israel’s adequacy status without confronting these structural problems undermines EU's #DataProtection framework and risks entangling violations of international law. The Commission must heed the calls of multitude of voices, including EU lawmakers and civil society, and reassess Israel's adequacy status ✊🏽 📄 Read the civil society letter ➡️ https://lnkd.in/giTu5g_S 📄 Read the MEPs letter ⤵️

😎 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 🕵️♀️ Bits of Freedom's new research on manipulative design by online platforms 📢 Call for sessions for #PrivacyCamp25 is now open  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dsdgk2Z5 🌻 Show your favourite digital rights newsletter some summer love ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gsJf29P

💪🏽 European Commission must champion the #AIAct amidst simplification pressure 💪🏽 📨 Today, EDRi and 51 civil society organisations, academics, and experts have written to the European Commission to oppose any attempts to suspend or delay the implementation and enforcement of the #ArtificialIntelligence (AI) Act. These attempts, especially in light of the growing trend of #deregulation of #FundamentalRrights and environmental protection, could undermine accountability and hard-won rights for people, the planet, justice and democracy 🚨 Instead of unraveling the EU rulebook, the Commission should focus on the full implementation and proper enforcement of its rules, like the AI Act ✊🏽 Read the open letter ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gENha32r Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation Access Now, AI Forensics, Algorights, AlgorithmWatch, Amnesty International, ANEC , ARTICLE 19, Aspiration, Bits of Freedom , Citizens Network Watchdog Poland, Civil Liberties Union for Europe, COMMUNIA, Corporate Europe Observatory, Danes je nov dan, Digitalcourage, Digitale Gesellschaft, Digitale Gesellschaft e.V., epicenter.works, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting, European Civic Forum, European Disability Forum, European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), Federación de Consumidores y Usuarios CECU, Fundación Civio, Health Action International, Hermes Center Hacking for Human Rights, Intérêt à Agir, IT-Politisk Forening, Lafede, Fundacja Panoptykon, Political Watch, Politiscope, Statewatch, The Future Society, Open Future Foundation, WITNESS, 5Rights

✊🏽 We're pushing back against dangerous #GDPR deregulation ✊🏽 Today, EDRi has responded to the European Commission’s consultation on the GDPR ‘simplification’ proposal. ❌ We're firmly opposing the plan to remove documentation safeguards under Article 30(5) risks. Removing this not only weakens security, legal certainty and effective enforcement of our rights, it also opens the door to broader deregulation of the EU’s digital rulebook 🚪 🧐 The Commission is presenting this change as a way to reduce admin burdens on smaller organisations. However, there has been no impact assessment, no evidence of disproportionate burden, and this change is being carried out outside the normal procedures for revising fundamental rights legislation. It's increasingly looking more like a dangerous shortcut to pursue a simplification agenda that could weaken our #FundamentalRights 😲 The EU must defend the GDPR as the cornerstone of the EU’s digital rulebook, and push back against any attempts to undermine it. Read our full submission ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gDyEJ8Gx

🎉 We're back! #PrivacyCamp25 will take place on September 30, 2025. Our rights and freedoms – online and offline – are facing unprecedented threats. Recognising this context, this edition of Privacy Camp will explore: ✊🏽Resilience and Resistance in Times of Deregulation and Authoritarianism✊🏽 📬 Call for session proposals is now OPEN: https://lnkd.in/g3aQ34iq 🗓️ Deadline for submitting session proposals is 21 July. Read more details about what kind of proposals we're looking forward to and how to submit your session ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g8BFJbPq 🩵 Privacy Camp is organised by European Digital Rights in collaboration with our partners the @Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Privacy Salon, Institut d'études européennes - Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, and the Racism and Technology Center.

🚨The European Commission has mass #DataRetention plans - and they're trouble🚨 Last week, the EDRi network expressed our shared concerns, massively opposing the introduction of new rules at EU level on the retention of data by service providers for law enforcement purposes. In short, we think this: ❌ constitutes #MassSurveillance,undermines the rights to #privacy,#DataProtection and other #FundamentalRights ⚖️ is contrary to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights by the Court of Justice of the European Union ‼️ creates data security risks Read our joint civil society response ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gWc-Uy6d Chaos Computer Club e.V., La Quadrature du Net, Privacy International, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Digitale Gesellschaft, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

🚨 #BudapestPride is just days away but #Hungary has criminalised Pride marches and is using real-time #FacialRecognition to identify protesters ❌ We, together with Civil Liberties Union for Europe, Társaság a Szabadságjogokért - Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting, ARTICLE 19, and other civil society organisations, are urging the European Commission to take IMMEDIATE action to defend human rights in Hungary. People at #BudapestPride should be able to safely exercise their right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression ✊🏽 🏳️🌈 Read our call to the Commission ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gymDyvcs

🔥 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 hyped Read about this (and much more) in our latest edition. Dive in ⤵️   https://lnkd.in/dZYgMYR2