🤡 It’s April Fools’ day and recent news from the EU #DigitalRights world does feel like headlines from The Onion.
In this #EDRigram, read about the various ways EU institutions and member states continued to clown around about our rights, & how we kept up the good fight:
🤔 Fewer rules, more innovation? Miscalculation of the new Brussels
🏆 A landmark conviction by Greek courts of #spyware vendors
‼️ The #DigitalOmnibus: A step back from the brink, but the risks remain
🗞️ Your favourite #DigitalRights newsletter is back! Strap in for the busy and buzzy first edition of the #EDRigram in 2026. On our agenda:
🕵🏾 new resource to strengthen the case for an EU-wide ban on #spyware
✊🏾 resisting discriminatory algorithms in the Netherlands with Bits of Freedom, and in France with La Quadrature du Net and coalition.
🤔 EDRi's 2025 year in review - resisting and persisting despite everything
... and more! ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-21-january-2026/
Need some weekend reading to catch up on #DigitalRights news and analysis? The latest #EDRigram is now out! Spoiler alert: we have the #DigitalOmnibus on our minds 🤯
What else can you find in there?
🤔 #ArtificialIntelligence is not as artificial as you might think, by @superrr
🚫 Why #AgeVerification misses the mark and puts everyone at risk
🤝🏾 The EU Digital Trade Agreement with Singapore is a setback our rights
... and much more.
Read the latest edition ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-27-november-2025/
📨 The latest edition of your favourite #DigitalRights newsletter is out! This time, we're grappling with changing seasons 🍂 🌧️ and much more. In this #EDRigram, read about:
💰 Budget cuts impairing Austria's #DataProtection Authority, and what NGOs are doing about it
📚 A new book on #spyware reiterating the call for a ban
⚖️ EDRi's take on #DigitalFairness and what we'd like to see in the upcoming #DFA
... and more! https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-29-october-2025/
😎 Out-of-office replies might be piling up, but the fight for #DigitalRights never clocks out.
Before the #EDRigram goes on summer break, here's a packed edition for you:
💪🏾 Resisting EU's #deregulation agenda that is threatening the #GDPR & #AIAct
🕵️♀️ @bitsoffreedom's new research on manipulative design by online platforms
📢 Call for sessions for #PrivacyCamp25 is now open
➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-10-july-2025/
🌻 Show your favourite digital rights newsletter some summer love ➡️ https://edri.org/take-action/donate/
🔥 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://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-25-june-2025/
Habemus #EDRigram 💨
⚖️ EDRi member @iurecz wins #DataRetention dispute in the Czech Republic
💬 We challenge techno-solutionist narratives in #DigitalSurveillance
📝 How #DigitalTrade is the new frontline in the fight for our rights
Read about this and more in the latest edition: ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-7-may-2025/
📨 New #EDRigram in your inbox now! 📨
🗃️ How Panoptykon @panoptykon is challenging the #DataRetention regime in Poland.
👁️ How Citizen D @drzavljand is fighting for transparency about the CCTV systems used in Ljubljana’s municipal surveillance.
🕵️ Highlights from the 20th anniversary of the Czech Big Brother Awards, organised by IuRe @iurecz.
And more!
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https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-16-april-2025/
🗞️ Fresh off the press! The latest #EDRigram just landed in your inbox. In this edition, we cover:
🚨 Why the new #Europol regulation is a Trojan Horse for #surveillance
🇵🇱 Poland's attempts to break the deadlock on the controversial #CSAR
🔓 Attacks on #encryption by #France and the #UK
Get up to speed on EU #DigitalRights now ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-5-march-2025/
The latest #EDRigram just dropped in your inboxes!
In this edition, read about:
✊🏿 civil society's call to the EU leadership to not succumb to pressure from #BigTech bullies and their allies in the Trump administration
🇮🇪 why #Ireland is the Achilles heel of the EU’s fight against Big Tech
🌿 the mirage of EU techno-solutionism to the climate crisis
... and more! ⤵️
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