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2026-10-28 14:51:18 UTC

🚨 Yesterday, the European Commission announced a revamp of Frontex, EU’s border agency. The new reform doubles Frontex’s budget to nearly €12 billion for 2028–2034 and expands its powers for deportations, preventing arrivals, and surveillance.
This would effectively turn Frontex into an ICE-style deportation agency.
Read a detailed analysis of the proposed new Regulation from the Protect Not Surveil coalition ➡️ https://protectnotsurveil.eu/resources/eu-transforms-frontex-into-a-high-tech-deportation-command-centre/
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2026-10-27 11:58:40 UTC

🤩 European Digital Rights is honoured to be a receipient of the 2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations programme! Thanks DDG for supporting our work of building thriving digital futures for people, the planet and democracy 💙 ☘️
We’re also glad to see EDRi members and partners, including @nprofile…4xqg 19, @Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, @nprofile…eexk @nprofile…72ar, the Tor Project and others, amongst the recipients! 🤝🏾
Read more ➡️ https://spreadprivacy.com/2026-duckduckgo-charitable-donations/

2026-10-22 09:19:58 UTC

EU governments have agreed their position on the #DigitalOmnibus on Data, and AI is at the heart of it.
Under the Irish Presidency, the Council has joined a deregulation project built around a dangerous idea: that Europe’s AI ambitions require feeding an ever-growing appetite for data, even if that means weakening rights people already have.

2026-10-21 12:57:47 UTC

Happy #GlobalEncryptionDay ! On 21st of October, we celebrate #encryption, the privacy-preserving technology that makes our communications safe and secure.
In democratic societies, communication systems are vital for our lives and connections with others. Safe and secure communications allow us to work, socialise, organise, express ourselves, and connect with each other.
https://edri.org/our-work/edri-celebrates-global-encryption-day-2026/

2026-10-13 07:01:32 UTC

🎉 It's #PrivacyCamp26 day and we're ready to welcome you! 🎉
Soon we'll kick off a day of debate, exchange and discussion on the theme for this edition: ‘The Origins of Future Technologies: Towards communities of digital self-determination’.
Join us online from 09.30 CEST via
📺 the Privacy Camp website: https://privacycamp.eu/
📺 or fairtube: https://lnkd.in/eg9spWgG
Here's the final programme for the day: https://privacycamp.eu/privacycamp26-final-programme-out-now/
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2026-10-01 09:26:55 UTC

1/2 🧐 IrpiMedia has just published a great investigation on Dataflow Security, an Italian exploit developer with strong - and growing - ties to Israel’s intelligence and cyber industry. Their business is built around discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities that escape their creators’ control.
This article is a great glimpse inside the opaque supply chain behind the spyware market, an unregulated business that poses a risk to our cybersecurity. ➡️ https://irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-inside-the-secretive-cyberweapons-company-that-won-over-israels-intelligence-elite/

2026-09-28 14:08:11 UTC

❌ WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR ❌
We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir.
Read the open letter here: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/LETTER_SIGNATORIES.pdf
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2026-09-24 12:09:00 UTC

1/2 🤩 #PrivacyCamp26 is right around the corner and we are excited to share the final programme with you!
Over many panels, workshops & documentaries, we’ll come together to explore the forces shaping our digital present & future as we dive into the theme for this edition: ⚡The Origins of Future Technologies: Towards communities of digital self-determination⚡
Check out the programme ➡️ https://privacycamp.eu/privacycamp26-final-programme-out-now/

2026-09-23 13:12:23 UTC

🤔 How many ‘scores’ did you get today? A bank might have assessed how ‘risky’ you are to give a home loan to. A potential employer might have use an algorithm to sort your CV.
AI-powered social-scoring can affect your life every day. The more vulnerable you are, the worse you fare 📈
🚨 Now, EU’s #DigitalOmnibus and #deregulation drive risk turning us into subjects of an authoritarian-scoring society.
🖋️ Read an op-ed about this potentially disastrous proposal ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eNE4CD27

2026-09-21 09:17:10 UTC

1/3 🚨 EU governments could be just days away from agreeing to a deal on the hashtag#DigitalOmnibus on Data that would weaken some of the basic protections people rely on under the GDPR, such as knowing who is using their data and why, being able to ask what data a company holds about them, and objecting to certain uses or expecting it to be kept secure.
Two things are especially worrying... 🧵
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2026-09-06 08:35:20 UTC

1/ 🍂 September is here, for many, this looks like a big #Microsoft or #Google logo with spreadsheets, documents, presentations.
For decades, Microsoft has dominated workplace productivity software. This dominance was turned into an unholy duopoly when Google Docs came around. #BigTech firms deploy aggressive business models built on forced subscriptions, product bundling & ecosystem lock-in.
This #DigitalIndependenceDay, let’s talk about office software & how to become digitally independent

2026-09-03 11:13:23 UTC

🚨 New wave of spyware attacks in Serbia target the student movement, activists, and opposition parties 🚨
SHARE Foundation has confirmed that at least 14 people in Serbia were targeted with spyware since the beginning of 2026 – the largest documented wave of such surveillance in the country to date. The timing of these attacks is especially suspicious and coincides with local elections in the country held in March 2026.
Read more ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/students-and-opposition-politicians-targeted-by-spyware-in-serbia/

2026-09-03 09:22:59 UTC

✊🏽 Providing safe, secure and independent internet infrastructure is not a crime. EDRi stands in full solidarity with Autistici/Inventati after the US government designated the Italian non-profit organisation as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist."
This targeting of A/I is also an attack on fundamental rights, safe and secure communications, anti-authoritarian organising and the democratic integrity of the EU.
Our full statement ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-solidarity-statement-autistici-inventati/

2026-08-02 16:35:04 UTC

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🔎 Once you quit Amazon, you’ll discover plenty of places where books are awaiting you: your local library likely offers thousands of e-books that you can borrow in just a few clicks, while many independent bookshops sell EPUB or DRM-free titles that work across a wide range of devices.
💎 You love classics? Open public collections like Project Gutenberg and Open Library have endless, timeless gems for you to read.
Happy BigTech-free reading and… happy #DiDay!
https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes/bookshop

2026-08-02 16:33:35 UTC

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📚 Reading digitally doesn't have to mean surrendering your right to privacy and losing control.
There are e-readers that respect your #privacy &support open standards, like the ones from PocketBook or Supernote. Open standards increase your e-readers compatibility & give you the choice to get your books from a variety of bookshops.

2026-08-02 16:32:15 UTC

🏖️ Holiday season has arrived in Europe, that means read-a-book season for many of you!
👁️‍🗨️ Amazon has dominated book and e-book sales & locked users into its closed ecosystem. Your e-book library, reader & even file formats you use are all controlled by one company. It gets worse: Amazon spies on your 📚 selection, reading habits, devices usage & sells the knowledge about you to other, unknown companies.
This #DiDay let’s talk about how to liberate your ♥️ for books from the grips of #BigTech.

2026-07-30 13:28:57 UTC

🤑 @nprofile…fu0r wants to spend billions to build new climate-busting AI data centres while the continent is suffering sweltering heatwaves and drought.
The heatwave in June has killed thousands in Europe and fuelled unprecedented wildfires, while fresh water in key rivers and waterways is drying up.
❌ Investing an unprecedented amount of public funds into data centres for the so-called “AI race”, even as money for social services and climate resilience dries up is a disastrous policy choice.

2026-07-22 08:29:55 UTC

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Want to know more? Read our latest explainer on why ePrivacy matters, why cookie banners are only part of the story, and how we can move beyond today’s broken system ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/cookies-and-consent-why-eprivacy-matters-for-our-browsing-life/
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2026-07-22 08:28:34 UTC

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✊🏽 Together with @nprofile…5x9q @nprofile…7axw - The European Consumer Organisation, @nprofile…dpms, Civil Liberties Union for Europe, @nprofile…eexk, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, @nprofile…gg3a, Digihumanism - Centre for AI & Digital Humanism, and Sustainable Computing Lab, we’re joining a campaign for a better recipe: fewer repetitive prompts, more meaningful choices, and privacy preferences that people can express once instead of being asked over and over again ➡️ killthecookiebanner.eu

2026-07-22 08:25:03 UTC

🍪 On today’s menu: a batch of banners nobody ordered 🍪
Take a pinch of manipulation, mix with endless pop-ups, bake until people are too exhausted to say “no”. That’s the tracking industry’s favourite recipe.
As Europe debates the future of online privacy, there is a chance to replace today’s endless cookie banner circus with something much simpler: letting people express their privacy preferences once, for example through their browser or device, and requiring websites to respect that choice.
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2026-07-20 09:07:06 UTC

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4/4 Let's be clear: these excessive demands are nothing less than blackmail from the US. We're calling on EU leaders to fight to protect our fundamental rights against yet another instance of the US bullying the EU into dismantling key safeguards: don't sell our data to the US 🚫
➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

2026-07-20 09:06:37 UTC

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3/4 This is extremely worrying because:
⚠️ The US has a track record of blatant disregard for human rights, inhumane treatment of migrants and visitors, and unlawfully screening travellers' social media profiles - the EU has demanded no protections against this.
⚠️ This could be used to target people who oppose the Trump administration, support trans rights, or are protesting against the genocide in Gaza - they could be detained at borders.

2026-07-20 09:05:57 UTC

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2/4 This 'Enhanced Border Security Partnership' Framework Agreement would mean an automated exchange of personal data, including highly sensitive information, and access to EU biometric databases to screen and identify travellers.
In short, the US is demanding excessive and unfettered access to information and sensitive personal data of people in the EU, intensifying #surveillance 🙅🏽‍♀️

2026-07-20 09:05:33 UTC

1/4 🚨 The EU is set to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel 🚨
🛫 The European Commission is finalising talks with the Trump administration on the 'Enhanced Border Security Partnership' (EBSP) Framework Agreement to keep visa exemptions for EU citizens travelling to the US.
Read our analysis of the leaked EBSP framework agreement, and our call to EU leaders to resist US pressure and protect our safeguards ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

2026-07-16 14:12:52 UTC

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2/2 🤩 Even more good news: registrations for #PrivacyCamp26 are also now OPEN! Make sure you secure your spot before logging off for the summer ➡️ https://crm.edri.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=19
💜 Privacy Camp is organised by in collaboration with our partners: the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Privacy Salon, Institut d'études européennes - Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, and the Racism and Technology Center.

2026-07-16 14:12:35 UTC

1/2 🎉 It's happening - join us for #PrivacyCamp26 on Tuesday, 13 October 🎉
We're inviting proposals for sessions at #PrivacyCamp26 that investigate the theme: ⭐ 'The Origins of Future Technologies: Towards communities of digital self-determination' ⭐
📬 Call for session proposals is now OPEN: https://privacycamp.eu/privacycamp26-call-for-sessions/
🗓️ Deadline for submitting session proposals is 10 August.
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2026-07-16 14:10:20 UTC

2026-07-16 10:53:47 UTC

🧐 Looking for a deeper dive into the digital elements of the EU's new Deportation Regulation?
The latest Protect Not Surveil Blog has all the answers 💡
From uninterrupted data sharing and surveillance-driven detention to seizure of electronic devices, our analysis takes a closer look at the most problematic provisions in the final text of the law.
Read now on Protect Not Surveil's brand-new website! ➡️ https://protectnotsurveil.eu/resources/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-eus-new-digital-deportation-regime/

2026-07-14 14:14:35 UTC

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2/2 🔎 The #GDPR requires the European Commission to keep adequacy decisions under continuous review. When the legal or institutional conditions change, the Commission has a duty to reassess whether an adequate level of protection still exists.
📣 Adequacy is a living legal mechanism, not a political label. The credibility of the GDPR depends on applying that principle consistently, and the European Commission must act accordingly.

2026-07-14 14:14:23 UTC

1/2 🔎 When facts change, adequacy must be reviewed.
🚨 After the US Supreme Court’s ruling in the Trump vs Slaughter case on the Federal Trade Commission's (lack of) independence, civil society is urging the European Commission to immediately reassess the EU-US adequacy decision.
Read our call to the European Commission, together with 36 civil society organisations and experts ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/when-the-facts-change-adequacy-must-be-reviewed/

2026-07-13 09:39:11 UTC

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2/2 🙅🏽‍♀️ This is mass age-verification, not targeted protection.
Online safety can be achieved without making the exercise of digital rights contingent on meeting specific conditions. Online services must be made safer for ALL, and real safety means tackling the root causes. That means safer-by-design services, tackling harmful business models, and properly enforcing the rules we already have 🫶🏽
📢 It's not just us saying this, young people across Europe agree ➡️ https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2089712/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans

2026-07-13 09:38:56 UTC

1/2 🚨 European Commission panel of experts backs indiscriminate age checks 🚨
Today, the chairs of the European Commission's panel of experts on child online safety published their recommendations, backing mandatory EU-wide #AgeVerification to exclude people under 13 from accessing online spaces 🚫
To know who is of the right age, everyone may have to prove their age. That creates barriers for people who cannot—or simply should not have to—go through the age verification process.
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2026-07-08 10:12:47 UTC

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2/2/ ✋ Our member @nprofile…x9t9 successfully intervened in the case to hold #Apple accountable, where they argued that people must have access and be able to distribute and run their software in environments controlled by Apple.
This includes unfettered software installation (sometimes called #sideloading and effective and free-of-charge interoperability.
🎉 This Court decision is a big win for software freedom in Europe. More about EDRi's assessment of the DMA ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-dma-is-a-success-it-should-be-strengthened-and-expanded/

2026-07-08 10:10:55 UTC

1/2 🧑‍⚖️ Today, the Court of Justice of the EU has ruled against Apple's attempt to evade some of its obligations under the #DigitalMarktesAct in the case #Apple v. @nprofile…fu0r.
The General Court confirmed that #interoperability isn’t optional, but a legal obligation under the #DMA.
All the details about the ruling ➡️ https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-07/cp260096en.pdf
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2026-07-06 14:43:37 UTC

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4/4 ⚠️ Roberta Metsola and EPP MEPs should not be allowed to make a joke out of EU's democratic processes. The Parliament's stance on a law is final, and not a suggestion to keep revisiting.
We are urging MEPs to hold strong this week, remember the stakes at play, and to make it clear once and for all: mass surveillance of private communications is incompatible with a safe and secure democratic society 🫶🏽
Catch up on the saga of "Chat Control 1.0" with our blogpost ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/did-the-eu-parliament-really-vote-not-to-protect-children-online/

2026-07-06 14:43:26 UTC

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3/4 ⚠️ If the interim derogation is voted through, voluntary mass scanning by Big Tech platforms becomes legal - with no need for a warrant, little to no oversight, and with no legal basis, on millions of conversations.
⚠️ The outcome of the vote on "#ChatControl 1.0" will either strengthen or undermine the Parliament's position on the #CSARegulation - which has so-far protected encryption and rejected mandatory mass surveillance of private.

2026-07-06 14:43:10 UTC

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2/4 🔎 This law would allow #BigTech companies like Microsoft and Meta to mass scan their users’ private messages to search for child abuse material. Despite the important aim to protect children, EDRi and many legal experts have argued that scanning everyone’s messages – rather than just those reasonably suspected of serious criminal acts – is a violation of everyone’s communications confidentiality and fundamental rights.
Why is the upcoming THIRD vote this week concerning?... 🧵

2026-07-06 14:42:25 UTC

1/4 🚨 Third Parliament vote on #MassSurveillance in 4 months? Why is the Council pushing MEPs to approve mass scanning of users’ private messages? 🚨
😮 This week, due to an unprecedented move by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, being described as her backstabbing her own institution, MEPs will be forced to vote once again on the interim ePrivacy derogation – sometimes known as “Chat Control 1.0”.
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2026-07-06 11:09:28 UTC

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2/2 🙅🏽‍♀️These revelations might be new but our concerns are long-standing: spyware is incompatible with a safe and secure democratic society that respects fundamental rights.
Join us, and thousands of people, in urging EU lawmakers to keep it safe and secure by banning spyware ➡️ https://edri.org/take-action/our-campaigns/keep-it-safe-and-secure/

2026-07-06 11:08:46 UTC

1/2 🚨 On Friday, a new investigation by @nprofile…zsgy revealed that a member of the European Parliament's PEGA committee was targeted with the Pegasus #spyware WHILE he was investigating spyware abuse in Europe ➡️ https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/
✊🏾 Today, EDRi, along with 38 civil society organisations and experts, is calling on EU lawmakers to act now to ensure that spyware abuse in Europe is met with accountability, not impunity. Read the full statement ➡️ https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Joint-Statement-Pegasus-in-the-European-Parliament-the-EU-Must-Act-Now.pdf
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2026-07-02 09:06:02 UTC

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3/3 ‼️ In order for the DMA to have a protective effect for users, competitors and the wider digital markets, however, the @EUCommission needs to enforce it more quickly and more boldly than it does at the moment.
All the details of the ruling ➡️ https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-07/cp260093en.pdf

2026-07-02 08:53:50 UTC

3/3 ‼️ In order for the DMA to have a protective effect for users, competitors and the wider digital markets, however, the @nprofile…fu0r needs to enforce it more quickly and more boldly than it does at the moment.
All the details of the ruling ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eUk7ak3R

2026-07-02 08:53:10 UTC

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2/3 While this ruling is powerful validation of the European Commission’s antitrust efforts set to break Big Tech’s monopolistic practices, it is also a stark reminder of how important the #DMA is: this ruling settles a one and half decades-old complaint originally lodged by FairSearch, a lobby group of Google competitors.
The DMA is supposed to make those decade-long legal battles unnecessary by prohibiting gatekeepers such as Google to deploy known abusive practices.

2026-07-02 08:52:02 UTC

1/3 🧑‍⚖️ Today, the Court of Justice of the EU has upheld a € 4.1 billion antitrust fine against Google for abusing the dominant position of its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals.
💰 The judgment confirms the European Commission's finding that Google abused Android to strengthen the market position of Google Search, the Chrome browser and other Google products.
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2026-06-29 14:29:34 UTC

🥳 We are proud to share EDRi’s many achievements in 2025 with you through our Annual Report.
The year marked the beginning of a wave of #deregulation that put hard-won digital rights, social protections, and environmental safeguards at risk.
We responded strongly by:
✖️ Building a strong front against the #DigitalOmnibus and attacks on the #GDPR and #AIAct
🧑‍⚖️ Taking action against Meta and X
✊🏽 Continuing to challenge Europol's expanding powers
… more!
Explore here ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-annual-report-2025-championing-digital-rights-in-the-eu-deregulation-era/

2026-06-26 13:48:13 UTC

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4/4 📣 The EU and its citizens do not need deregulation disguised as simplification. What we need are clear, enforceable rules that protect people (and the planet) from commercial surveillance, abusive data practices and harmful AI systems.
📚 The file has now been placed on the table of upcoming Irish Presidency of the Council, and we will make sure to resist any further erosion of this data protection framework.

2026-06-26 13:47:50 UTC

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3/4 Earlier drafts by the Council already dropped some of the most dangerous elements, including attempts to rewrite the definition of personal data and create an AI-specific lawful basis.
But with each reiteration, the proposal moves further away from the protection of people's rights and closer to accommodating industry's demands, hammering safeguards that are essential for privacy, confidentiality and accountability in the digital age.

2026-06-26 13:47:27 UTC

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2/4 This debate has never just been about 'cutting red tape' for administrative simplification. It is about whether the EU will defend people's fundamental rights or allow data protection and confidentiality safeguards to be treated as obstacles to data exploitation.
⚠️ These proposed changes have been advanced without any evidences that data protection rules are creating the problems they claim to solve, and without a proper impact assessment on the consequences on people's rights and freedoms.

2026-06-26 13:46:41 UTC

1/4 ⛔ The Council has failed to reach an agreement on the hashtag#DataOmnibus.
A group of Member States — including Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Austria — pushed to postpone the discussion and blocked agreement on the latest Council text.
🚦 After months of negotiations, it seems that powerful corporations are succeeding in putting pressure on the Council to weaken hashtag#GDPR and hashtag#ePrivacy protections even further.
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2026-06-23 12:13:24 UTC

🚨 Fight for Us, Not for Them Summit is now live!
From Brussels to online, we are kicking off a full afternoon of conversations on the concrete human, societal and geopolitical consequences of the European Commission’s deregulation agenda.
As hard-won digital protections face growing pressure, this summit is a chance to debate what comes next for EU tech policy and what Europe’s path toward technological self-determination should look like.
📺 Join us live on fairtube: https://fair.tube/w/res8Zscg69HAXs8iT3gZw7
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2026-06-23 10:45:22 UTC

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2/2 The surveillance tech industry is thriving while the victims are nowhere close to justice.
✊🏽 It's time for regulation. It's time to act. We need safe and secure digital communications. Join us, and thousands of people, in calling on EU lawmakers to BAN spyware ➡️ https://edri.org/take-action/our-campaigns/keep-it-safe-and-secure/

2026-06-23 10:45:00 UTC

1/2 🕵🏽‍♂️ 🇪🇺 On 24 June, the European Parliament interest group on spyware is taking stock of the human rights violations that have occurred due to this harmful technology, and the response at the EU and the international level to this crisis.
We can make it easy for our lawmakers. Spoiler alert: nothing has been done to address the unbridled spread of #spyware and other #surveillance tech. The only steps taken have been window dressing measures at best.

2026-06-23 08:11:53 UTC

🚨 #Europol has been using a secret second database with no safeguards and limited oversight for years.
Instead of holding them accountable for their rogue tactics, on June 24, the European Commission is expected to reward the police agency with more powers and money in a proposal to overhaul their mandate 🤑
This is far from the first time that Europol is getting away with severe breaches of its own rules and flouting our fundamental rights.
Read more in our op-ed: https://euobserver.com/222391/europol-is-going-rogue-so-brussels-is-doubling-its-budget/

2026-06-18 14:07:36 UTC

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❤️‍🔥 With @nprofile…p9tf, We Move Europe, @nprofile…6u7j, @nprofile…eu2m, Balance Economy Project, and Rebalance Now

2026-06-18 13:45:34 UTC

📣 EU leaders: Fight for us, not for Trump’s billionaires.
With @nprofile…p9tf, @WeMoveEurope & @nprofile…6u7j, we’re taking the message across Europe & not even the EU’s own landmarks are off limits.
Brussels talks up "digital sovereignty", governments are preparing the biggest rollback of digital rights in European history. Decades of hard-won protections wrapped up with a bow Big Tech.
✊Our right to privacy, safety and democracy aren't up for sale ➡️ https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01-omnibus-tech-petition-EN/
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2026-06-16 14:16:10 UTC

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5/5 ✊ We will continue to champion safer online spaces that protect the privacy, participation and young people’s rights.
#AgeVerification is not a cure-all solution and it should never become a default answer to every digital challenge.
Read more from 31 youth organisations and youth activists have joined forces to speak up against their own exclusion ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans/

2026-06-16 14:15:19 UTC

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4/5 🧑🏾‍⚖️ The Court confirms that labeling a measure as “criminal law” does not automatically remove it from the EU framework.
➡️ In other words, EU Member States cannot sidestep European safeguards simply by changing the legal packaging. This would have undermined the legal certainty that underpins the EU digital rulebook.

2026-06-16 14:14:37 UTC

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3/5 Our concern remains that once #AgeVerification is treated as the “appropriate” tool in this context, it risks becoming the default answer elsewhere too.
🇫🇷 is also pushing for an age-gated access social media.
Today’s verdict serves as a signal to any Member State seeking to go down that route: they will have to prove these strict conditions are met. It might be harder for social media platforms: the #DSA provides a different, more proportionate, framework to make online spaces safer.

2026-06-16 14:12:38 UTC

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2/5 As a rule, online services are regulated in the country where they are established.
🧑🏾‍⚖️ The Court confirms that Member States can depart from this principle to protect minors, but only under strict conditions: the measure must be necessary , targeted at specific harmful services, and proportionate.
Importantly, the country where the service is based must have failed to take adequate action itself.

2026-06-16 14:11:52 UTC

1/5 Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on France’s age-verification rules for pornographic websites under the EU #eCommerceDirective.
🏛️ The verdict is more complex than a simple “yes” or “no”.
Let’s dive into it 🧵
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2026-06-15 15:15:36 UTC

Today, the 🇬🇧 announced a social media ban for under-16s.
🚫 Exclusion is NOT empowerment! Shielding children from the digital world is no substitute for preparing them to navigate it.
Lawmakers should focus on regulating the systems that cause harm, making social media platform a safe space for all, regardless of age.
This is why ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/why-age-verification-misses-the-mark-and-puts-everyone-at-risk/
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2026-06-11 11:37:08 UTC

🚨 The #AIOmnibus should never have happened.
The file was presented as "technical" simplifications of the arduously negotiated #AIAct, but it delays key protections, weakens transparency and creates a dangerous precedent for the EU's digital rules. It's just another vehicle for the EU's #deregulation agenda serving industry lobbies at the expense of our rights.
🚫 Civil society calls on the EU Parliament and Council to reject the AI Omnibus deal.
Read our analysis ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/ai-omnibus-deal-eu-lawmakers-should-reject-a-rollback-of-ai-safeguards/

2026-06-08 09:51:36 UTC

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4/4 ⚠️ We've already seen the consequences of EU lawmakers playing with fire when the negotiations on the ‘interim ePrivacy derogation’, also known as 'Chat Control 1.0', fell apart in April 2026.
Although there were attempts to blame the EU Parliament, a closer look shows that the Commission and the Council refused to engage in good faith. Read our analysis here ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/did-the-eu-parliament-really-vote-not-to-protect-children-online/

2026-06-08 09:51:26 UTC

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3/4 ❓ Will the in-principle agreed protection of vital end-to-end #encryption remain in the final text? This technology is essential to protect everyone online, and it's important that lawmakers uphold their commitment to ensure we can communicate safely and securely.
We hope that this will finally be the opportunity to ensure that the EU takes important and meaningful steps to tackle child sexual abuse material online, in a way that is genuinely compatible with EU law and technical reality 🫶🏽

2026-06-08 09:51:07 UTC

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2026-06-08 09:50:59 UTC

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2/4 ❓ Will the final law refrain from making it impossible to use private message services and send emails without a government-registered ID? We have long argued that the CSA Regulation is the wrong place to tackle #AgeVerification and would have huge exclusionary consequences and a chilling effect on free expression.

2026-06-08 09:50:48 UTC

1/4 🚨 There's only one remaining big negotiation scheduled on the CSA Regulation (aka "#ChatControl"). Last time the negotiators met in May, it was clear there are still some crucial open questions:
❓ What sort of scanning rules will be in the final law? We continue to urge EU lawmakers to ensure that limitations on the right to communications privacy are targeted, and #MassSurveillance ruled out - in line with EU human rights and criminal procedures.

2026-06-03 14:42:26 UTC

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5/ 📣 We call on the legislators in the European Parliament and the Council to question the Commission’s misguided belief in data centre growth and hyper-scaling unicorns, and instead build on the promises made in the Open Source Strategy and make sure they actually happen.
It is time to steer this continent towards a future where technology works for the people, democracy, and the planet.

2026-06-03 14:40:22 UTC

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4/ There is a positive outlier: the EU #opensourcestrategy
It reflects the crucial role that free and open source software (FOSS) play for Europe’s ability to break free from Big Tech.
Its explicit recognition of independent, volunteer-, and SME-driven #FOSS communities ( 👋 @nprofile…fjzn & @nprofile…zeh9) are a welcome signal that EU institutions are keen on leaving proprietary dependencies behind them.

2026-06-03 14:38:32 UTC

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3/ 💰 The Tech Sovereignty Package is a massive spending spree for more AI, more chips, and more resource-sucking data centres in Europe.
🤑 The Commission suggests that by spending billions in public money to prop up the local data centre industry, it can magically create Europe’s own #ChatGPT and #claude
❌ The proposal gives little, if any, appreciation to the impact of AI data centres on water consumption, electricity use, and on communities.

2026-06-03 14:37:45 UTC

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2/ European tech shouldn’t be about entering a race to the bottom with the 🇺🇲 & 🇨🇳 .
The EU's strength should be achieved through reliable data protection rules, platform, and AI governance, as well as environmental protection, economic justice and democratic governance of technology.
🚫 Any policy for “sovereignty” should focus on providing people in Europe with increased digital self-determination, not on building European versions of #BigTech

2026-06-03 14:36:51 UTC

1/ Today, the European Commission presented the so-called #TechSovereigntyPackage after months of delay.
👎 Despite a very welcome EU hashtag#OpenSourceStrategy, the overall package is a lost opportunity built on a corporate lobbying narrative: the legal rules created to protect our rights are considered to be a barrier to the EU’s “competitiveness” and, as such, “sovereignty.”
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2026-06-03 12:45:56 UTC

🚨 Companies producing the worst #surveillance technologies like #spyware are gathered in Europe at this very moment at the ISS World Europe in Prague, Czech Republic.
❌ There should be no support in the EU for an event like this which normalises spyware abuse, surveillance, human rights violations and complicity with the genocide in Gaza.
👀 Do you want to resist surveillance tech like spyware with us? Watch the video and join the Keep It Safe and Secure campaign ➡️ https://edri.org/take-action/our-campaigns/keep-it-safe-and-secure/
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2026-06-01 12:28:21 UTC

🚨 From 2-4 June, Czech Republic is hosting ISS World Europe, a #surveillance industry trade fair where some of the most harmful and invasive surveillance tools like #spyware are traded and promoted.
🚫 Such a marketplace for digital repression tools, connected to companies directly involved in war crimes, human rights violations, and the genocide in Gaza, should have no place in the EU.
✊🏽We are calling for an immediate cutting of EU's ties with the ISS. Our statement ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/statement-end-complicity-with-iss-world-europe/

2026-05-20 14:10:41 UTC

🚨 New research commissioned by EDRi analyses the implementation of the #LawEnforcementDirective in Bulgaria, France, Greece, Germany and Slovenia.
Even eight years after the LED’s entry into application, its implementation remains fragmented and insufficient ❌
The LED is a crucial #DigitalRights protection instrument and provides protection standards for the processing of personal data by law enforcement authorities 🚔
Read the full study and country reports ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/research-study-evaluation-of-eus-law-enforcement-directive-shows-implementation-still-fragmented-and-insufficient/

2026-05-20 08:03:17 UTC

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5/8 At 14.30, tune on Avatar.FM, the @nprofile…cc7p radio station, EDRI’s iméon de Brouwer joins a @nprofile…h00y youth ambassador to unpack what Europe’s proposed social media bans could mean for young people online. Don’t miss it!
https://gimicradio.com/

2026-05-20 08:02:14 UTC

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4/8 In the afternoon, at 14:15 in Living Room, join our workshop: "Designing Fairness: Power, Manipulation and Responsibility Online" 🛠️
EDRi's @nprofile…qhtd will lead this interactive workshop examining how different understandings of fairness shape the Digital Fairness Act and who bears responsibility for design choices online.
More info: https://www.cpdpconferences.org/workshops/designing-fairness-power-manipulation-and-responsibility-online

2026-05-20 08:00:58 UTC

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3/8 Also today at 10:30 in Orangerie, join our panel: "Youth protection through inclusion and empowerment: a rebuttal of the exclusion-based narrative" 🧒
EDRi's Siméon de Brouwer will be speaking about age verification, youth agency, and the rights of young people online.
More info: https://www.cpdpconferences.org/panels/youth-protection-through-inclusion-and-empowerment-a-rebuttal-of-the-exclusion-based-narrative
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2026-05-20 07:58:24 UTC

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2/8 Today at 10:30 in Grande Halle, don't miss the panel: "Enforcing Data Protection in Law Enforcement: challenges on the ground and operational solutions" 🚨
EDRi's @nprofile…pc38 will be speaking about law enforcement, state surveillance, and data protection.
More info: https://www.cpdpconferences.org/panels/enforcing-data-protection-in-law-enforcement-fundamental-rights-challenges-and-opportunities-under-the-led
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2026-05-20 07:56:53 UTC

1/8 It's happening! The 19th edition of @nprofile…cc7p is officially underway in Brussels – the multidisciplinary conference on privacy and data protection, bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society, and tech practitioners from across the globe.
Come find our booth and say hi! And stay tuned for our key sessions 👇
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2026-05-19 14:33:30 UTC

📣EDRi is looking for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Professionals!
We're recruiting at least 5 experts in dispute resolution, HR, and NGO governance to join our independent Complaint Mechanism bodies (Confidential Advisor & Complaints Committee).
🗓️ Deadline: 25 May 2026
📍 Remote | 3-year contract
Find out more and apply here 👉 https://edri.org/take-action/careers/edri-is-looking-for-conflict-prevention-and-resolution-professionals/
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2026-05-18 13:49:24 UTC

👏🏽 Europe's first and only Digital Justice Fund is live, thanks to Weaving Liberation 👏🏽
This fund will support politics, visions and strategies to challenge systemic harms, who are currently under-resourced or excluded from funding, to build power and liberatory digital futures.
If you're a non-profit initiative working on #DigitalJustice organising in Europe, this opportunity could be for you.
⚠️ Registration deadline: 24 May
Find out more details and register here ➡️
https://weavingliberation.org/digital-justice-fund/

2026-05-13 15:04:02 UTC

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2/ This follows a complaint we filed last year together with @nprofile…2d2p, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte & Convocation Research+Design on behalf of an 🇮🇪 user. For over a year, civil society organisations have raised concerns that Meta’s design practices undermine people’s freedom to choose how content is recommended to them online.
More information ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/

2026-05-13 15:03:37 UTC

1/ 🥳 Big news for digital rights in Europe: Ireland’s Digital Services Coordinator, Coimisiún na Meán, has opened a formal investigation into Meta’s potential use of “dark patterns” that may prevent people from choosing feeds not based on profiling on Facebook and Instagram.
👏 We’re glad to see regulators taking these concerns seriously. This investigation could become a major step toward meaningful #DSA enforcement and stronger user rights across the EU.
Our reaction ➡️ https://lnkd.in/euyCMjcA
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2026-05-13 07:29:01 UTC

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@nprofile…f09k Here: https://privacycamp.eu/join-us-for-the-digital-rights-lounge-powered-by-privacy-camp-2/

2026-05-12 09:57:03 UTC

Technology is never neutral. Far too often, LGBTIQ+ communities are among the first to experience the consequences: profiling, censorship, data exploitation, discriminatory systems & online harassment.
⚠️ These are warning signs about the direction our digital environment is taking.
At Digital Rights Lounge, we'll be discussing how tech shapes queer lives, what risks of surveillance are & how we can fight back.
📍 19 May, 13.00-16.30 at BeCentral in Brussels
📝 : https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=MH_ksn3NTkql2rGM8aQVG16DMINI-MBAnUrIpqPWklBUNk9ZNDZDSFZNMzVKSVdWMFhHWk9SWVJQRi4u
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2026-05-07 13:31:46 UTC

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3/3 The message is clear: when powerful actors complain loudly enough, safeguards can be recast as burdens and rules that protect people can be reopened.
❤️‍🩹 This does not make the EU digital rulebook simpler. It makes it weaker, harder to enforce, and less protective of people’s rights.
It also confirms a dangerous direction of travel: companies are being given more space to mark their own homework, while #FundamentalRights, justice and democratic oversight are pushed further to the margins.

2026-05-07 13:31:29 UTC

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2/3 🚫 A delay to key high-risk AI obligations, weakening accountability of those developing, selling or deploying AI systems
🚫 A watering down of protections against some risky and harmful AI systems, including through a carve-out for industrial AI
🚫 Less legal certainty, as compliance with important safeguards is postponed and parts of the framework become more fragmented
🚫 A worrying precedent for reopening hard-won #DigitalRights protections before they have even had the chance to apply

2026-05-07 13:31:13 UTC

1/3 🚨 Early this morning, EU lawmakers sealed the deal on the EU's #AIOmnibus.
The outcome of the final negotiations is not surprising, given the massive #deregulation push from parts of the European Commission, the German government, industry actors, and some lawmakers.
But it is still deeply disappointing 🙅🏽‍♀️
With this morning's deal, we will have... 🧵
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2026-05-06 07:58:36 UTC

EDRi condemns Zambia's de facto cancellation of #RightsCon2026 following Chinese pressure.
This violates freedom of expression & assembly and further strains the digital rights and democracy community at a critical moment.
We stand with @accessnow.bsky.social and Bloggers for Zambia.
Full statement → https://epd.eu/news-publications/statement-the-zambian-governments-cancellation-of-rightscon-2026-is-a-blow-to-digital-rights-and-democracy/

2026-05-04 10:38:46 UTC

🧑‍🍳 We are cooking...switching away from Big Tech.
This #DiDay join us in prepping the feast, all you need is:
🥫 a handful of alternative platforms
🧂 a pinch of conscious choice
🫂 the support of your community
The process is simple: ditch the platforms that aren’t aligned with your values & don’t serve you, join the ones that respect your rights.
Prep time is short, but enjoyment is ever-lasting – chef’s kiss guaranteed 🧑‍🍳 🤌
Check the recipes here ⬇️
https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes

2026-04-30 13:26:56 UTC

🗓️ Mark your calendars for an exclusive summit on resisting the EU's digital #deregulation agenda!
We're excited to announce the summit ✊🏽 "Fight for Us, not for Them": A public interest vision for EU tech policy ✊🏽
📍Tuesday 23 June 2026, 14-18.00 CEST
11 civil society orgs will convene European lawmakers, regulators, journalists, and key civil society voices to lay out our bold alternative vision for tech laws, policies and practices.
Register now to join us online ➡️
https://edri.org/our-work/announcing-the-summit-fight-for-us-not-for-them-a-public-interest-vision-for-eu-tech-policy/

2026-04-30 12:14:45 UTC

The @nprofile…fu0r's first review of the #DMA is out. While the law remains a powerful tool, its enforcement is falling short.
Yes, there have been early wins. But widespread non-compliance by gatekeepers, weak enforcement signals & reports of political interference risk turning ambition on paper into missed opportunity in practice.
The Commission should stop “working with gatekeepers towards compliance” & instead simply require it.
✊🏾 No more leniency for law breakers https://edri.org/our-work/if-the-dma-is-fit-for-purpose-why-are-the-gatekeepers-winning/
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2026-04-29 08:14:16 UTC

🌈 What if digital rights worked for everyone?
Ahead of #CPDP2026, step into the Digital Rights Lounge, where the #PrivacyCamp community gathers to connect, challenge & reimagine the future of digital rights.
💬 This year, we’re exploring how technology shapes queer lives, where risks like surveillance & discrimination arise, and what it takes to push back.
📌 May 19, 13:00-16:30, at BeCentral in Brussels
📝 Programme & registration ➡️ https://crm.edri.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=17
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2026-04-22 10:15:51 UTC

🚫 Bans for young people won’t fix broken platforms
Addiction, harmful content, data misuse, harassment - different symptoms, same root cause: platform design.
Young people are pushing back against social media bans for minors.
In this op-ed, co-authored by youth activists and backed by 32 organisations, we say it clearly: we need rules, enforcement, and protection for ALL users, regardless of age
No decisions about young people, without them ✊🏽
Read the op-ed ➡️ https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2089712/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans

2026-04-15 08:01:05 UTC

🚨 The #AI Omnibus is deeply flawed. The EU Commission's proposal goes far beyond 'technical changes' and the process doesn't follow basic democratic procedures.
This would leave people in the EU without necessary protection from high-risk AI systems, such as biometric identification or AI use in schools.
41 organisations & experts are calling on EU lawmakers to REJECT the AI Omnibus, and protect the democratic process and our #FundamentalRights.
Read the open letter ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-eu-lawmakers-must-safeguard-the-ai-act/

2026-04-09 13:47:04 UTC

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2/2 No more complicity, no more excuses. The evidence speaks for itself. We are calling on EU lawmakers to:
🙅🏽‍♀️ ensure no EU funds for the spyware market
🚫 impose full EU-wide ban on spyware and the industry behind it
🔎 improved transparency, due diligence and accountability of EU's financial bodies like European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund
🙌🏽 protect our ability to safely and securely communicate with each other by safeguarding end-to-end #encryption

2026-04-09 13:46:48 UTC

1/2 🚨 If you pay taxes in the EU, your money might have been used to enable the #spyware industry that spies on Europeans and harms our democracy.
💶 How exactly are EU public funds ending up in the hands of companies that are behind some of the biggest spyware scandals globally? We explore with Counter Balance for EUobserver ➡️ https://euobserver.com/210197/its-not-just-spyware-scandals-eu-is-funding-the-industry-that-spies-on-europeans/

2026-04-02 14:08:37 UTC

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More closed-door discussions with the Trump administration won’t strengthen cooperation, they will undermine trust, transparency, and in the worst case even the EU’s ability to enforce its own rules.
Together with other civil society organisations, we call on the @nprofile…fu0r to halt this “dialogue” and focus on stronger, faster, and more transparent enforcement of Europe’s digital laws.
Read our statement ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/europes-digital-laws-are-not-bargaining-chips/

2026-04-02 14:07:32 UTC

✊🏾 The strict enforcement of EU’s tech laws is not up for negotiation!
Yesterday, the @nprofile…fu0r confirmed plans to open a new “formal dialogue” with the 🇺🇸 gov on EU tech law enforcement. Framed as cooperation, this could create a backdoor for Big Tech to weaken EU'slandmark rules.
The #DSA, #DMA, #AIAct & #GDPR exist to protect people, safeguard democracy & rein in Big Tech. If the Commission seeks enforcement dialogue, it should do so with the people in :europe: & public interest groups.
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