Tag: European Union

Europe is exploring ways to bypass MLATs. Any system for cross-border access to data must increase protections for fundamental rights.

Access Now’s Brett Solomon details ways Europe can ensure that foreign policy supports digital rights.

Here’s we’ve learned so far about EU plans for encryption and other digital security measures.

Edward Snowden did the right thing when he exposed surveillance practices that damage human rights worldwide. He should be pardoned.

Lawmakers have a responsibility to strengthen and protect the security of our communications and systems, not to purposefully weaken it.

Even if the tide is turning with regard to banning encryption, Europol may seek other “practical solutions” that increase its authority to access individuals’ private information and put our digital security at risk.

Making Europe’s “trialogues” process more transparent could help make the government more accountable to the public, which could in turn positively impact digital rights.

Tasking private, third-party actors with policing expression online may do more harm than good.

The European Commission has announced an ill-considered “code of conduct” for countering hate speech online.

Negotiators from the United States and the European Union recently reached a preliminary deal on the so-called Umbrella Agreement, a transatlantic deal that sets standards for protecting personal data when it is transferred for law enforcement purposes. However, one key hurdle remains before the agreement will get sign off: the U.S. must grant a right to remedy for E.U. citizens who suffer privacy violations. It remains to be seen whether the U.S. will follow through on providing that protection, and whether it will be meaningful enough to meet E.U. standards.