{"id":135185,"date":"2025-06-24T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/posts\/135185\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:21:06","slug":"we-sent-an-open-letter-to-the-eu-calling-for-a-reassessment-of-israels-adequacy-decision-under-the-gdpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/posts\/135185\/","title":{"rendered":"We sent an open letter to the EU calling for a reassessment of Israel\u2019s adequacy decision under the GDPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"389\">Together with European Digital Rights, Access Now, and 16 other civil society organizations, we submitted a second open letter to the European Commission, urging it to urgently reassess Israel\u2019s adequacy status under the GDPR.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"495\">Since the Commission reconfirmed Israel\u2019s status in January 2024, the situation has only deteriorated:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"497\" data-end=\"978\">\n<li data-start=\"497\" data-end=\"561\">\n<p data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"561\">Escalating human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"562\" data-end=\"624\">\n<p data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"624\">Expansion of surveillance systems and biometric repression<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"692\">\n<p data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"692\">Legal reforms undermining oversight of personal data processing<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"767\">\n<p data-start=\"695\" data-end=\"767\">Ongoing data flows to Israeli companies with ties to security services<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"889\">\n<p data-start=\"770\" data-end=\"889\">Use of AI-driven targeting systems in a context where the International Court of Justice has found plausible genocide<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"978\">\n<p data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"978\">Application of Israeli law to occupied territories, in breach of the EU\u2019s own policy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1208\">This is not just about technical compliance. It is about whether the EU\u2019s data protection framework can credibly uphold fundamental rights, and whether data originating in the EU is being used to facilitate unlawful practices.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1233\">Read the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/edri.org\/our-work\/data-flows-and-digital-repression-civil-society-urges-eu-to-reassess-israels-adequacy-status\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;] Together with European Digital Rights, Access Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":135218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,87],"tags":[487,620,818,1079,1104,1105,1140,1141],"class_list":["post-135185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actions","category-reports","tag-gdpr-en","tag-european-union-en","tag-european-commission-en","tag-data","tag-israel","tag-adequacy-decision","tag-1140","tag-1141"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135185"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135216,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135185\/revisions\/135216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}