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Dutch Government not Obliged to Repatriate IS-women and Their Children

July 15, 2020 • by Raksha Nazir, Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The Netherlands Supreme Court has ruled that the Dutch government is not responsibile for repatriating 23 Dutch women and their 56 children from camps in Northern Syria. The State argued that Dutch national security, that of other Schengen countries, a...
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- rule of law
- Dutch Supreme Court
Consumer Claim Against Facebook for Violating Privacy

July 15, 2020 • by Raksha Nazir, Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The Consumentenbond (a non-profit organization which promotes consumers protection) and the Data Privacy Foundation have filed a mass claim against Facebook for breaching the privacy of Dutch users. Facebook gathered and sold private data to companies ...
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- the Netherlands
- Digital privacy
CJEU: Employers Cannot Discriminate Between Disabled Employees

July 13, 2020 • by Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

In the opinion of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Advocate General, EU law prohibits employers from favoring one set of employees over another within a group of disabled employees.
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Rights Organizations Are Still Pushing to Avoid Mandatory Upload Filters

July 10, 2020 • by Eva Simon, LibertiesEU

The Commission promised to release the draft guidelines by end of March. Four months later, the guidelines are still to be published. On the other hand, EU member states have already started the harmonization processes of the Copyright Directive.
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Show Us the Data: Contact-Tracing Apps - Part 5

July 08, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

We gave them our data. Now we want theirs.
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NJCM responds to EU White Paper on Artificial Intelligence

July 03, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

On the 14th of June, the NJCM (Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights) submitted a response to the European Commission’s White Paper on artificial intelligence (AI).
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- Netherlands
- Artificial Intelligence
Germany Assumes EU Presidency at Critical Juncture for Our Rights and Democracy

July 02, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

Germany gets to set the upcoming agenda for the EU Council, and we have a number of things we’d like them to work on in order to build a stronger, more democratic European community.
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The Do’s and Döners of Democracy: Speechbag - Episode 6

July 02, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

You can find great things in Germany. Cars, kebabs, democracy. Privacy is a pretty big deal too. Can Germany make privacy a big deal for the rest of Europe?
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Who Has the Final Say? Contact-Tracing Apps - Part 4

July 01, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

In a healthy democracy, power rests with the people. But EU countries are pushing COVID-19 apps on their citizens without public discussions.
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- trackthetrackers
To Create a Democratic, Fair & Innovative Digital Society, EU Must Protect Users’ Rights

June 30, 2020 • by Eva Simon, LibertiesEU

Human rights and digital rights groups issue a joint statement urging the European Commission to make human rights a priority for big online platforms.
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