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Deregulation was the 🇪🇺 plan, resistance was our response. From defending the hashtag#DSA and hashtag#DMA, challenging Big Tech’s abuses, and pushing back against mass surveillance, to building powerful coalitions and growing the EDRi network across Europe, we proved that digital rights are worth fighting for. 2026, we’re ready, whatever comes next 🦾 Read a summary of our year in action ➡️

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi’s 2025 in review: we resisted, we persisted - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Shifting political landscapes and shrinking civic space have made the work of civil society increasingly difficult for years.

Security ≠ surveilling everyone With 18 CSOs, we have sent a letter to the 🇨🇭 Federal Department of Justice & Police to oppose plans to expand its data retention regime. This proposal forces the collection & retention of people’s data across the board, dramatically widening online surveillance. It's disproportionate, rights-eroding & incompatible with a democratic society: Swiss authorities must abandon mass data retention & stop treating everyone as a suspect. 📩:

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Civil society concerned about extensive data retention in Switzerland - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

19 civil society organisations have penned a letter to the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP).

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Mastodon

Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social)

Today, the DSA Human Rights Alliance has published guidelines to set the stage for a globally aware and rights-respecting enforcement of the DSA in...

The #DSA is shaping platform regulation far beyond Europe, but replication without context can do real harm. That’s why @npub1m24q...d9a3 & Access Now have developed a new resource setting out global recommendations for enforcing the DSA in ways that protect freedom of expression, safeguard marginalised communities, and prevent politicised or abusive enforcement. 🔎 Dive in here ⤵️ View quoted note →

1/ 🎉Happy #DataProtectionDay 🎉 Data protection is fundamental right & backbone of many other digital rights we rely on every day. Strong data protection limits surveillance, curbs profiling, exposes discrimination & gives people ways to challenge automated decisions. Without it, words like fairness, equality & accountability quickly lose their meaning, online & offline. Today & any other day, our message should be clear: this right matters, it's not negotiable & deserves full protection.

The @European Commission has opened a #DSA investigation into X’s AI chatbot Grok. In just days, its produced 3M+ non-consensual sexualised images of women &minors, turning X into an infrastructure for AI-enabled sexual abuse. Elon Musk and his company have treated the harm like a game, putting profits over people. We welcome the EC decision: strong safeguards, independent verification, dissuasive fines, and bold EU enforcement are non-negotiable. Read our statement ➡️

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi calls for action as EU probes X’s Grok over AI-generated harm - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi welcomes this decision and is calling for a swift resolution to this matter, to ensure that X complies fully with its DSA obligations.

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chaos.social

epicenter.works (@epicenter_works@chaos.social)

Today the EU Commission published the long-awaited Digital Networks Act. We analysed it immediately. Our first take: dangerous. The proposal threat...

Today the @European Commission unveiled its proposal for a Digital Networks Act (#DNA)... and it has far-reaching implications for Europe’s internet. Despite being framed as a “technical update,” our member [@epicenter_works](

chaos.social

epicenter.works (@epicenter_works@chaos.social)

4.08K Posts, 135 Following, 5.16K Followers · Menschenrechte im digitalen Zeitalter schützen.
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)'s first analysis shows the proposal could dismantle key net neutrality safeguards, centralise political power, and threaten an open and neutral internet. Read the full analysis 👇 View quoted note →

🗞️ Your favourite #DigitalRights newsletter is back! Strap in for the busy and buzzy first edition of the #EDRigram in 2026. On our agenda: 🕵🏾 new resource to strengthen the case for an EU-wide ban on #spyware ✊🏾 resisting discriminatory algorithms in the Netherlands with Bits of Freedom, and in France with La Quadrature du Net and coalition. 🤔 EDRi's 2025 year in review - resisting and persisting despite everything ... and more! ➡️

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi-gram, 21 January 2026 - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

What has the EDRis network been up to over the past two weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter.

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Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net

La Quadrature du Net (@LaQuadrature@mamot.fr)

La CNAF utilise depuis 15 ans un algorithme de scoring pour noter ses allocataires et cibler ses contrôles. En pratique, les personnes les plus pr...

✊🏾 @EDRi is proud to join @npub1d2az...gtj2 and other orgs in challenging the discriminatory algorithms used by the family branch of the French welfare system (CNAF). In the context of the current #deregulation spree by the European Commission, this legal action shows resistance to the rollback of #FundamentalRights protections and the increase of rights-infringing legislation. Read an update about the strengthened coalition and the legal action so far ➡️

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

CNAF's discriminatory scoring algorithm - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

10 organisation, including EDRi, have joined a coalition effort to challenge the discriminatory algorithms used by the family branch of the French ...

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We are grateful to be among the 10 beneficiaries of the 2025 @Proton Lifetime Fundraiser with organisations working to protect digital rights, including EDRi member @npub1rx77...ke7f and partners @NLnet & Lighthouse Reports "Support from the global Proton community will significantly strengthen EDRi’s resilience, empowering us to advocate for robust laws and promote a healthy and accountable technology market." Amber Sinha, EDRi Executive Director 👉

Proton

We’re giving over $1.27 million to support a better internet | Proton

We raised over $1.25 million this year to directly support organizations on the front lines of the fight for online privacy and freedom.

Today, #Australia enforced a social media ban for kids under 16. The same debate is happening in Europe, where #AgeVerification measures are gaining traction, with the European Commission, the Council of the EU, and the European Parliament all endorsing similar approaches. ‼️ Reminder: age verification is not real protection. It’s a quick techno-fix that locks young people out of spaces while failing to address the root problems of broken platforms. More ➡️

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Why age verification misses the mark and puts everyone at risk - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Age verification is a short-sighted, ineffective and dangerous way to protect young people form online harms.