European Digital Rights

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European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international association of civil rights organizations that is committed to data protection and the freedom of citizens in the information society .

She was on the 8./9. Founded June 2002 by ten groups from seven European countries in Berlin. The founding board members were Maurice Wessling from the Netherlands, the then CCC spokesman and ICANN director Andy Müller-Maguhn from Germany and Meryem Marzouki from France. EDRi is based in Brussels .

The organization is currently the umbrella organization for 34 associations from 19 European countries. In October 2012 the organization had three full-time employees. The main fields of work of EDRi are data retention , copyright , internet censorship and the treaty to combat internet crime . EDRi monitors these issues at the level of the European Union and in the 45 member states of the Council of Europe . Since 2003 EDRi has been informing about these developments in a bi-weekly newsletter, the EDRI-gram. Large German member organizations are the CCC, Digitalcourage , the Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility and Wikimedia Germany . Austrian members are epicenter.works , quintessenz , noyb - European Center for Digital Rights , the Initiative for Network Freedom and VIBE! AT .

Actions

At the hacker conference What The Hack in July 2005, EDRi began an online campaign against the storage of telecommunications data planned by the European Union at the time . The campaign was under the motto Data retention is no solution ( data storage is not a solution ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. "Chaosradio" on Clean IT , Blue Moon , Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , September 27, 2012
  2. ↑ About European Digital Rights . EDRi website, December 22, 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Members. In: EDRi. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .

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