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  1/4 🥳 Some amazing news from the Netherlands yesterday for digital fairness! Dutch MP Barbara Kathmann has tabled a bill taking aim at addictive and manipulative design across digital services. And there is a lot here for Brussels to look at and learn from 🤓 Read more about the proposal in 🇳🇱 ➡️ https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2637687-pro-wil-verbod-op-verslavende-algoritmes-waardoor-je-blijft-scrollen?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true

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  1/2 🤩 #PrivacyCamp26 is right around the corner and we are excited to share the final programme with you! 🗓️ 13 October 2026, online and in Brussels 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-program...

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  🎉 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://fair.tube/w/kAghntNasrfwMAECi8BjiY Here's the final programme for the day: https://privacycamp.eu/privacycamp26...

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  🤩 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 @article19, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, @eff @openrightsgroup, the Tor Project and others, amongst the recipients! 🤝🏾 Read more ➡️ https://spreadprivacy.com/2026-duckduckgo-charitable-donations/

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  🚨 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-depo...

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  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.

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  RE: https://ciberlandia.pt/@d3/117247637388924882 Age verification is having a moment in the EU. But we should ask why scrolling is so hard to stop rather than for whom 👀 Our 🇵🇹 member D3 has brought the first class-action lawsuits vs. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube for their “addictive design”. 👏🏾 A bold & timely action! The attention economy has all of us in sight, we urgently need to tackle the business models & design practices that exploit vulnerabilities & manipula...

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  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-secret...

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  ❌ 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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  🤔 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://euobserver.com/23762...

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  1/3 🚨 EU governments could be just days away from agreeing to a deal on the #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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  1/ 🛑 President Ursula von der Leyen’s #SOTEU announcement on age-gating and banning children’s access to online spaces comes with no surprise. 📝 There is a fundamental problem with the approach: you won’t be making harmful platform safer by preventing young people from using them, you can only achieve that by regulating the platforms in the very first place.

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  🚨 Join us at #PrivacyCamp26 on 13 October 2026 in Brussels or online. 📑 Across panels, interactive workshops and ground-breaking documentaries, we’ll host discussions that investigate EU’s sovereignty package, AI supply chain impact in Kenya & Congo, resiting Europol, the impact of AI-powered weapons on people in Lebanon, the opportunities for strategic litigation in advancing LGBTQI+ rights through digital rights & much more. Here’s a sneak peek of the programme 👇 https://privacycam...

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  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 indepe...

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  ✊🏽 Providing safe, secure and independent internet infrastructure is not a crime. EDRi stands in full solidarity with Autistici/Inventati @cavallette@mastodon.bida.im 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/...

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  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403 🤑 @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu 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 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”...

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  🍪 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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  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-m...

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  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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  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/

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  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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  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. @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu. 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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  1/4 🚨 Third European 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 “#ChatControl 1.0”.

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  1/2 🚨 On Friday, a new investigation by @citizenlab@mastodon.social 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,...

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  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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  🚨 Yesterday, the European Commission announced a new reform proposal for #Europol – the EU’s policing agency – which expands Europol’s operational powers and weakens key data protection safeguards to the tune of €3 billion. This is the third Europol reform in six years changing the agency’s mandate to increase its powers and budget. Read more from #ProtectNotSurveil ➡️ https://protectnotsurveil.eu/resources/press-release-europol-mandate-overhault-2026/

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  🚨 #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/222...

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  📣 EU leaders: Fight for us, not for Trump’s billionaires. With @PeopleVsBigTech@mastodon.social, We Move Europe & @GreenpeaceEU@eupolicy.social, 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...

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  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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  🚨 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 ➡️ htt...