other Time to Build a Dynamic, Resilient, and Sovereign Technology Ecosystem in Europe. Joint Statement to the EU Presidency As Europe’s digital leaders gather in Gdańsk for the 2025 EU Digital Summit, civil society organisations across the continent welcome the opportunity for Europe to lay the foundations of a digital ecosystem that is open, sovereign, resilient, and contributes to Europe’s prospe 18.06.2025
other Algorithm Watch: Pride With Pride! Stop Mass Surveillance at Pride, Stop Face Recognition Now Enough is enough! Mass surveillance in public spaces is becoming a reality in the European Union (EU), despite EU laws designed to protect us. As a result, our fundamental rights are under massive attack. 25.06.2025
Article AI Act: we call on MEPs to put our fundamental rights first As the European Parliament gets ready to vote on the AI Act, we call on MEPs to put our fundamental rights first and protect the people affected by AI systems. 28.04.2023 Text
Article Open Source Surveillance And Online Privacy, CPDP 2014 [VIDEO] Access of the law enforcement agencies and secret services upon more or less formal warrants and request do not cover the whole problem of the online surveillance. More and more date is available out there without any warrants – just to read, take and process. It is the situation, when the data that we all publish online, with more or less awareness of the consequences, is used by authorities mention above for whatever purposes. How purpose limitation could possibly be used to limit open source surveillance? To what extent privacy settings that by default enable or enhance making data public help in conducting this type of surveillance? How open source surveillance might influence individual? 24.01.2014 Text
Article Surveillance after Snowden, 6th Biannual Surveillance & Society Conference [VIDEO] The story of post-Snowden debate is a story of crossing the redlines that never should be crossed in democratic society. After at least 10 years of allegations, we gained evidence showing that surveillance is not about fighting terrorism or even public security. It is about intelligence agencies best interests and easy access to citizens data. Katarzyna Szymielewicz talks about these sad truths nearly 12 months after first disclosures made by Edward Snowden. 24.04.2014 Text