Sign the petition to ban biometric mass surveillance

The future must be ours to shape. Facial recognition can and will be used against us by governments & corporations - based on who we are & what we look like. Reclaim our faces. Reclaim our public spaces. Say YES to a BAN.

Sign now! Read our latest content

Highlights

We work hard to make change happen

Our team and network of digital rights activists and experts work tirelessly to protect your rights online

150,000 emails, 15,000 tweets and hundreds of phone calls Sent by supporters engaged by the SaveYourInternet.eu campaign to act upload filters in the Copyright Directive.

Read the full story
european policy

Our ground-breaking clauses Adopted by the European Commission upgrading data protection safeguards in trade agreements.

Building on GDPR success

The power of a civil society coalition Our network's diversity is our strength when it comes to proposing bold solutions to big problems, like the disproportionate power of online platforms.

Protecting digital rights in the DSA

EDRi in the Spotlight

AlJazeera logo

Technology is the new border enforcer, and it discriminates EDRi’s research in Greece and conversations with people on the move revealed that certain places serve as testing grounds for new technologies, places where regulation is limited and where an “anything goes” frontier attitude informs the development and deployment of surveillance at the expense of humanity.

READ THE ARTICLE
POLITICO logo

Activists urge EU to ban live facial recognition Digital rights advocates in five European countries launched a campaign to spotlight the increasing use of facial recognition and other biometric identification technology across the Continent, which they say will pave the way for mass surveillance on an unprecedented scale.

READ THE ARTICLE
The New York Times logo

Big Tech Turns Its Lobbyists Loose on Europe, Alarming Regulators "At one influential nonprofit, European Digital Rights, Jan Penfrat recalled getting phone calls last year from Google, Facebook and others seeking cooperation and offering support soon after he took a leadership position. “It was like they were trying to co-opt us and get us on their side,” Mr. Penfrat said. “That was the first hint and it was alarming.”

READ THE ARTICLE

Other media talking about us

Learn about the latest news in digital rights

Subscribe to the EDRi-gram newsletter now