@edri ProtectEU’ security strategy: a step further towards a digital dystopian future
European Commission 🇪🇺 presented an internal security strategy that would undermine #digitalrights and even increase security threats
We unpack what ‘ProtectEU’ means for the EU’s future digital policy, including on #encryption, #dataretention, and border #surveillance
https://edri.org/our-work/protecteu-security-strategy-a-step-further-towards-a-digital-dystopian-future/
The EU's #ProtectEU strategy raises serious concerns for digital rights, continuing punitive #surveillance trends.
It threatens #privacy with a #Technology Roadmap promoting #encryption backdoors for #law enforcement, and plans to reassess #data retention rules could lead to mass #surveillance and chill #anonymous speech.
Digital rights advocates must push back against these harmful #policies.
#TechNews #Tech #EU #DigitalRights #DataRetention #Cybersecurity #Security
What does #ProtectEU mean for digital rights in the EU? EDRi’s senior policy advisor Chloé Berthélémy @chlobemy unpacks the new internal security strategy presented by the @EUCommission and what it means for the EU’s future digital policy.
Spoiler: it’s bad news on #encryption, #DataRetention, #Europol & more.
Read it here: https://edri.org/our-work/protecteu-security-strategy-a-step-further-towards-a-digital-dystopian-future/
A small victory on the data retention front. #Czechia https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/court-rules-that-czechia-collects-phone-data-illegally-in-landmark-decision #dataretention
Ah, yet another groundbreaking revelation: save more data because, surprise, you might need it later! 🤯 Apparently, #common #sense now requires #acronyms to be interesting. Next up, YAGNCI: You Are Gonna Not Care, Idiot. 🙄🚀
https://www.scottantipa.com/yagri #dataretention #revelations #techhumor #YAGNCI #HackerNews #ngated
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🗃️ 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.
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#ProtectEU == #GoingDark #ChatControl #DataRetention
EU encryption backdoor plans 🤮
theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/
"A Technology Roadmap on encryption, and an impact assessment with a view to updating the EU's data retention rules."
Zwar am 01.04. vorgestellt, aber vermutlich leider kein Aprilscherz:
ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_920
#eu #surveillance #encryption #backdoor #newspeak #ProtectEU #chatcontrol #dataretention #propaganda
Important pre-weekend read for all of us policy geeks and those who want to understand the details of #DataRetention jurisprudence:
@chlobemy & @je5perl analyse the most recent judgement of the CJEU on the French data retention system #HADOPI and what it means going forward.
Perfect time to wise up as the European Commission announced this week to reboot European data retention legislation soon in the course of the EU internal security strategy, "#ProtectEU". #GoingDark
@je5perl and I have tried to make it as easy as possible :blobPikaFail: to understand the implications of the #HADOPI judgment by the Court of Justice of the EU ⚖️ for the upcoming new EU #DataRetention legislative proposal (due in 2026)
Technical but important for digital rights and the fight against mass surveillance👇
https://edri.org/our-work/cjeu-saved-the-hadopi-what-implications-for-the-future-of-data-retention-in-the-eu/
The future of #DataRetention is being re-shaped right now.
This week, the European Commission announced an impact assessment, eventually leading to new data retention rules at EU level, as part of its European Internal Security Strategy, #ProtectEU
Time for a policy deep dive: Last year, the CJEU ruled on the French #HADOPI data retention system and revised parts of its earlier jurisprudence. Read about the implications of this judgement for what comes next: https://edri.org/our-work/cjeu-saved-the-hadopi-what-implications-for-the-future-of-data-retention-in-the-eu/
Wondering risk of data compromise if a threat actor compromises the Office365 app environment. To reduce this risk, Data retention, back-up, and disposal Automation should be one of the important aspect to learn and adapt.
#office365 #windows #windows11 #sharepoint #dataretention #data #automation #backup
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-app-certification/docs/acat-overview
@panoptykon @statewatch Yes so true, this is pretty bad.
And now combine it with the terrible plans the new 🇩🇪 German government is just formulating that also indiscriminate include #dataretention, #biometric mass #surveillance, legalised state hacking, etc.
I think we're in for a couple of years of fighting unconstitutional laws in the courts -- again. 😢
Very worrisome interim-results 24.03.205 in the #interior sub-group for the #coalition treaty in #Germany. See @netzpolitik_feed:
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/koalitionsverhandlungen-gruselprogramm-fuer-grund-und-freiheitsrechte/
* #DataRetention
* Post remote biometric identification & big data surveillance of online spaces. #Palantir
Disagreement on:
* CDU/CSU want communication services to decrypt and provide private messages to police upon request.
* Whether Germany will still oppose #ChatControl.
* CDU/CSU want real time facial recognition at transportation hubs.
It’s more than a little creepy having AI monitor student laptop conversations and messaging.
Just like it is monitoring communication between adults for potential crime indicators.
These issues are only going to grow.
And don’t believe for a second your data is safer in the EU.
What a messy problem.
#surveillance #pnw #eu #dataretention
Student privacy vs. safety: The AI surveillance dilemma in WA schools
Your mass surveillance agenda is in a bad place if even liberal economic think tanks are calling it out.
„Police authorities and governments are calling for digital backdoors for investigative purposes - and the EU Commission is listening. The Centre for European Policy (cep) warns against a weakening of digital #encryption. The damage to cyber security, fundamental rights and trust in digital infrastructures would be enormous.“
https://www.cep.eu/eu-topics/details/security-and-trust-an-unsolvable-digital-dilemma.html
#GoingDark #ChatControl #DataRetention
ICYMI: Google sets new 540-day limit for Customer Match data retention https://ppc.land/google-sets-new-540-day-limit-for-customer-match-data-retention/ #GoogleAds #DigitalMarketing #DataRetention #CustomerMatch #PPC
ICYMI: Google sets new 540-day limit for Customer Match data retention: Google announces changes to data retention policies for Customer Match lists, affecting Google Ads and Display & Video 360 platforms. https://ppc.land/google-sets-new-540-day-limit-for-customer-match-data-retention/ #GoogleAds #DigitalMarketing #DataRetention #CustomerMatch #PPC
ICYMI: Google sets new 540-day limit for Customer Match data retention: Google announces changes to data retention policies for Customer Match lists, affecting Google Ads and Display & Video 360 platforms. https://ppc.land/google-sets-new-540-day-limit-for-customer-match-data-retention/ #GoogleAds #CustomerMatch #DataRetention #DigitalMarketing #Advertising
ICYMI: Google sets new 540-day limit for Customer Match data retention https://ppc.land/google-sets-new-540-day-limit-for-customer-match-data-retention/ #GoogleAds #CustomerMatch #DataRetention #DigitalMarketing #Advertising
