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About the Organisation
European Digital Rights (EDRi) is a network of NGOs, experts, advocates, technologists, academics and impacted communities. The text says it has been defending and advancing digital rights across Europe for two decades, as it marks its 20th anniversary this year.
Recent Activity
- EDRi-gram newsletter, dated 8 October 2026, reports on the network's recent work.
- EDRi stands in solidarity with Autistici/Inventati, an Italian non-profit that the US government designated a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for providing digital infrastructure to supposedly "violent far-left militants".
- EDRi celebrates Global Encryption Day on 21 October 2026, as part of its KISS campaign.
Key Positions
- On child protection, EDRi says proposed EU rules would allow authorities to monitor anyone's legitimate conversations, harming everyone, including those the law aims to protect.
- On biometric data, the text stresses that it can identify a person forever, which is why it is so sensitive.
- On Europol, the European privacy watchdog is reported to be suing lawmakers over the agency's new mandate, which grants more data processing powers.
Digital Rights Goals Across Europe
The network describes its aim to challenge the structural causes of oppression so that all groups in society have their voices heard in the digital rights field. This decolonising approach, it says, recognises that oppression has roots in domination, exploitation and colonisation.