Check out brief by @digitalcourage in the most recent #EDRigram @edri. Plans by the EU commission on digitalising travel documents could require member states to implement digital travel credentials. This would affect all travelers if because of this physical travel documents are disadvantaged or even abolished entirely.:

https://edri.org/our-work/how-eus-plan-to-digitising-travel-documents-might-affect-you/

You can of course also find it in full on our website at:
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/digitalising-travel-documents

or in German at:
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/initiative-digitalisierte-reisedokumente

🛫Passport and ID cards – soon available only through a smartphone app?

@EU_Commission plans to digitise travel documents & introduce contactless border controls with biometrics.

🚨This could affect all travelers in the future.

More by @digitalcourage in the latest #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/how-eus-plan-to-digitising-travel-documents-might-affect-you/

☀️ Blazing hot #DigitalRights takes & news are now in your inbox with the latest #EDRigram!

In this edition, read about:

🔐 ongoing efforts in the EU and the UK to protect #encryption
🧳 what would EU's plan to digitise travel documents mean for you?
🏖️ what to do, watch, read and listen to this summer to keep yourself updated on all things digital x human rights while the #EDRigram is on a break

& more.

➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-12-july-2023/

Do we accept a future in which our private mail and communication can be intercepted anytime, in which we are treated as potential suspects? 
 
Read more in the #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/encryption-protects-our-rights-privacy-is-not-a-crime/

🚨While the EU has strong data protection & privacy laws like the GDPR, these laws are not without limitations.

A new report by GW University identifies six specific limitations of the current EU data protection & privacy policy landscape.

More in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/guarding-health-data-privacy-in-europe-the-limits-and-challenges-of-current-regulations

💸@noybeu's complaint & litigation got #Spotify to pay 58 million Swedish Crown for failing to comply with the obligation for users to have a right to get access to all their data & information on the use of their data.

More from NOYB in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/spotify-gets-fine-of-e-5-million-for-gdpr-violations/

🛂A new EU border police watchlist will require people who do not need a visa to travel to the EU to provide an extensive set of personal data that will be subjected to AI screening to seek out potential security risks.

@statewatch for #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/development-of-eu-border-police-watchlist-is-progressing-well/

Find the latest #EDRigram in your inbox to get a fresh take on the hottest #DigitalRights news:

🥳Bans on biometric mass surveillance
🔐Use of encryption seen as a crime in France
💰Big fine for Spotify for violating #GDPR rules
👀& more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-28-june-2023/

🔥Keep up with the hottest happenings of the #DigitalRights world with the #EDRigram:

❌Civil society asks MEPs to reject #eEvidence
🇪🇺 Will EU allow the use of personal data for political advertising?
👁️ Ten years of Snowden revelations

& more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram14-june-2023/

Didn't get a copy of the latest #EDRigram? Make sure to subscribe 😉 https://edri.org/take-action/stay-up-to-date-with-edris-newsletters/.

Here's the top news:

🎂 Happy #GDPR 5th bday!
👨‍⚖️ #Meta gets a big fine over US mass surveillance... it only took 10 years
🗳️ Ban on #PoliticalAds?
& more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-31-may-2023/

Complex social problems like child sexual abuse need serious redress 🙅🏾‍♀️BUT using these problems as emotionally evocative pretexts to justify the elimination of #privacy will not solve them.

@signalapp's @Mer__edith explained that #CSAR will never work technologically.

During @edri's 20th-anniversary event, Meredith Whittaker explained how #CSAR mandates practices that would be impossible to implement without breaking encryption.

Check out the speech in #EDRigram. https://edri.org/our-work/signals-meredith-whittaker-voices-edris-concerns-with-the-csa-regulation/

Are you lost in the mass of #DigitalRights & #Tech news?🧐Check out the latest #EDRigram to get the top updates on:

👁️Multiple voices raising against #CSAR
🏥 Stronger #privacy rights for patients in #EHDS
🇫🇷 France legalising #MassSurveillance
➡️& more: https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-19-april-2023/

1/2 ✊🏾Brussels residents: you can join the fight against #BiometricMassSurveillance!

🚫#ProtectMyFace campaign calls on the Brussels Parliament for an explicit BAN on #FacialRecognition.

Read more by @ellajakubowska1
in the #EDRigram:

👁️The use of technology like #BiometricSurveillance by governments threatens activists, journalists and civil society around the world

A new report by @ecnl maps the impact of such tech on civic space 🗺️

Read more in the #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/mapping-the-impact-of-biometric-surveillance-and-social-media-platforms-on-civic-space

🇬🇧 Data weaponisation and discriminatory 'gang' surveillance is harming communities of colour.

✊🏾Civil society orgs are calling on Andy Burnham and Manchester Police to end these discriminatory practices.

Read more by @openrightsgroup in the #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/manchester-10-open-letter-asks-andy-burnham-to-tackle-discriminatory-gang-surveillance/

🇳🇱Latest in tech & human rights from the #Netherlands:
🏆 @YlvaJohansson at @bitsoffreedom Big Brother Awards
🔐 Dutch Parliament's tug-of-war on protecting end-to-end encryption

Read more by @bitsoffreedom in #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/unprecedented-appearance-by-european-commissioner-for-home-affairs-innovating-on-quicksand-and-the-cabinet-vs-online-confidentiality/

🚨13 non-EU countries accept social media profiles & phone contacts as proof of identity for deportations.

😟Using unverified information for deportations is concerning for rights of migrants and asylum seekers.

More by @statewatch in the #EDRigram https://edri.org/our-work/social-media-profiles-and-phone-contacts-used-as-proof-of-identity-for-deportations/

The latest #EDRigram is out! Don't miss news from the #DigitalRights world:

👁‍🗨Brussels campaign opposing #MassSurveillance
✨ shaping the next 20 years of Europe's digital rights
😟 unverified information used for deportations from the EU?
and more!

➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-29-march-2023/

🇪🇺 EU is laying the foundations of a Europe-wide digital identity - but there are risks and shortcomings.

@europarl_en must safeguard #privacy and ensure a inclusive & secure digital ID system 🔒

Read more by @epicenter_works in this week's #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/european-digital-identity-a-potential-game-changer/

❌Oppressive digital governance, like in Iran, can affect digital assemblies and protests.

Check out @enablingNGOlaw's guide on safeguarding our #RightToAssemble in the digital space

Read more by EDRi affiliate @ecnl in this week's #EDRigram: https://edri.org/our-work/iran-digital-spaces-of-protest-and-control/