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Vacancy: EDRi is looking for a Policy Adviser
EDRi is looking for a Policy Adviser to join EDRi’s policy team in Brussels. This is a unique opportunity to participate in civil society efforts to push for rights-based digital regulation at a time where the EU institutions are negotiating landmark legislation like the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and the AI Act, among others.
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Intensified surveillance at EU borders: EURODAC reform needs a radical policy shift
In an open letter addressed to the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 33 organisations protecting the rights of people on the move, children and digital rights including European Digital Rights (EDRi) urge policymakers to radically change the direction of the EURODAC reform – the European Union (EU) database storing asylum seekers’ and migrants’ personal data - in order to respect fundamental rights and international law.
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Impact documentation specialist (consultant)
EDRi is looking for an external consultant who will run the research and retrospective production in the lead up to EDRi’s 20th anniversary.
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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 ARTICLEActivists 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 ARTICLEBig 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.”
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