IuRe: the only Czech digital rights organization
Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) is a Czech non-profit organization founded more than twenty years ago. IuRe is a small team based in Prague and Brno.
- in the Legal Aid programme, IuRe provide counselling to people with social problems related to debt, housing or work
- in the Digital Freedoms programme, IuRe´s lawyers address issues of data abuse, privacy, or biometric identification – in recent years, big theme of this programme has been also digital exclusion and the right to analogue
- since 2005, IuRe also organizes the popular Big Brother Awards
IuRe is a member of EDRi, the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online. Members of IuRe are also part of several committees of the Human Rights Council.
Contact
- pr@iure.org
- Signal: +420 776 703 170
Films about our activities
We made a documentary movie about digital divide and digital exclusion, Digital Dissidents, which is available online with English subtitles. You can see it here (the premiere was in April 2022).
From 2020, we are fighting against data retention. Watch the video that helped us raise funds from the public (December 2020).
One of our themes is cash protection. See why we care about it in our crowdfunding campaign video. Watch it here (December 2022).
In a short video our Jan Vobořil and sociologist Petr Lupač talk about digital exclusion. What specific cases of forced digitalisation have we encountered? Check it out (end of 2023).
Recent articles about our activities in English
2025
- Avoiding regulation of biometric surveillance and loyalty applications: The 20th Big Brother Awards took place in the Czech Republic / April 16, 2025
2024
- Biometric surveillance in the Czech Republic: the Ministry of the Interior is trying to circumvent the Artificial Intelligence Act / October 9, 2024
- Europol and biometric surveillance “won” the Czech Big Brother Awards / April 3, 2024
- The right to pay in cash? Approaches of European countries mapped / January 17, 2024
2023
- New educational videos about AI in media, privacy & digital exclusion. Here is what they show / December 6, 2023
- Czech police use facial recognition system, IuRe finds out details / September 27, 2023
- Czech data protection authorities question police use of facial recognition / Aug 14, 2023
- Police cameras won Big Brother Awards in Czechia / April 19, 2023
- Czech online state services without Google Analytics: thanks to IuRe / March 1, 2023
2022
- Spying on couriers and AdTech using data from operators. We know the winners of the Czech Big Brother Awards / April 6, 2022
- Digital Dissidents will introduce those who do not use technology / February 2, 2022
2021
- Big brother at the Prague airport. The state refuses to explain how the biometric camera system works / November 17, 2021
- IuRe teams up with journalist to sue the Czech state for mobile phone data collection / June 16, 2021
- Czech Big Brother Awards awards worst privacy culprits / March 24, 2021
2020
- For the “right to analog”: IuRe strengthens the Digital Freedoms program / September 30, 2020