How tech is weaponised against women | Euractiv Tech companies have a history of creating tools that make online spaces unsafe for women. EU tech laws haven't changed that

🤖Tech is weaponised against women. @anupriyadatta.bsky.social & @claudiemoreau.bsky.social explain how in this timely piece

Tech companies have a history of creating tools that make online spaces unsafe for women. And 🇪🇺 tech laws haven't changed that

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MEP raises questions over US biometric talks for EU visa deal | Euractiv Written questions from Renew Europe's Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, seen by Euractiv, highlight US threats to end visa-free travel if the EU doesn't share citizens' data

A planned biometrics deal which could see US authorities get access to Europeans’ sensitive data has made it onto the political agenda, with a Renew MEP asking pointed questions to Commission and Council.

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European Parliament groups just carved up top tech files in industry committee

The EPP, the Greens and Renew will respectively lead on the Digital Omnibus, the Cybersecurity Act review, and the Digital Networks Act

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Elon Musk's Grok 'spicy' mode fuels calls for EU crackdown | Euractiv 'If the victims were powerful men, X would be offline by now,' a Greens lawmaker said

The Grok scandal continues to grow, and lawmakers are watching. But although this is a very public case, it also highlights the bigger issue of Child Sexual Abuse Material, CSAM, which is already spreading online

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What could letting humanoid robots into your home mean? Go check out my little winter project here:

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Cyprus' EU presidency eyes cloud sovereignty that keeps US on side | Euractiv "We shouldn't take sovereignty to the extent of blocking anyone unless [they're] European," deputy minister for digital policy, Nicodemos Damianou, told Euractiv

Cyprus' EU presidency eyes cloud sovereignty that keeps US on side

"We shouldn't take sovereignty to the extent of blocking anyone unless [they're] European," deputy minister for digital policy, Nicodemos Damianou told @euractiv.com's @claudiemoreau.bsky.social & I

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Council agrees position on 'chat control' after years of stalled talks | Euractiv Negotiations with MEPs on the proposal to combat the spread of online child sexual abuse material can start after countries ditch controversial mandatory detection orders

🚨 BREAKING: After years of negotiations, the Council is now ready to start talks with the Parliament on CSAM. Mandatory detection orders were ditched in order to get the sufficient backing from member states, they would now remain voluntary

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EU’s digital law cuts spark fears and doubts on competitiveness | Euractiv "If it's about competitiveness, this is certainly not helping," said Mario Mariniello from a Brussels-based think tank

If we don't even know whether the rushed sweeping cuts to privacy will help European businesses, then what's the point? Seems like panic will just harm everyone

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EXCLUSIVE: Latombe to appeal EU-US data transfer court challenge | Euractiv The French MP tells Euractiv he will seek to overturn the lower court's assessment of the validity of transatlantic data flows

🚨 Latombe readies to appeal his legal challenge to the EU-US data transfer agreement

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Complaint targeting Ireland over privacy watchdog's independence sent to Commission | Euractiv The Irish Council for Civil Liberties takes formal action questioning the process that led to an ex-Meta lobbyist landing a top privacy oversight job

Human right NGO the ICCL filed a formal complaint with the Commission against Ireland, over what it believes is a lack of independence in the process which put an ex-Meta lobbyist at the head of the Data Protection Commission.

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Danish Presidency circulates final 'chat control' text ahead of vote | Euractiv The text obtained by Euractiv will be presented in a permanent representative meeting on Wednesday

The Danish Presidency is prepared to put their compromise on the controversial 'chat control' CSAM law to a vote next week in Council. Euractiv got the latest text 👇

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🚨Follow Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union speech on our liveblog.

We have a dozen reporters analysing every word:

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Are EU–US data transfers safe from a 'Schrems III' privacy challenge? - Euractiv After the Latombe challenge failed, Euractiv sat down with privacy activist Max Schrems to discuss where he goes next on EU-US data transfers

📢 I interviewed @noyb.eu's @maxschrems.bsky.social to discuss what he thought of EU-US data transfers, and the outcome of the Latombe case, check out what is next for Data Privacy Framework court challenges:

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Commission eyes cookie banners in digital simplification push - Euractiv The EU's digital branch will gather views in a closed-door meeting with industry and civil society

The Commission is gathering industry and civil society feedback on cookies for the digital simplification package, after it dropped the ePrivacy Regulation proposal earlier this year

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EU fines Google €2.95 billion - Euractiv The US tech giant was fined for violating EU competition rules in the advertising technology market

🚨 Google got slapped with almost €3 billion fine in AdTech antitrust case.... a few days after it was reported that the Commission was holding off the fine to avoid angering the US, my colleague @anupriyadatta.bsky.social reports👇

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EU-US data transfer deal remains valid after EU court rejects challenge - Euractiv The ruling on the substance of the legal challenge surprised privacy activists who believed the Court would toss the case on procedural grounds

🚨A surprise judgment today, as many thought the Court would throw the case on procedural grounds. On substance too, many hoped it would reject the validity of the EU-US data transfer agreement, but the Court found otherwise

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EU-US data transfers face déjà vu moment amid unprecedented political tension - Euractiv Latombe’s challenge to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, set for a ruling in the EU General Court on Wednesday, lands amid unusually tense transatlantic relations

Tomorrow could see the EU-US data transfers' legality disrupted - if the court finds that French MP Phillippe Latombe has legal standing - but unlike prior similar instances, the transatlantic relationship is far more tense

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Psst! Your AI chatbot is feeding on your conversations - Euractiv Anthropic is the latest chatbot to begin training its AIs on users' conversations, but turning such sensitive personal information into AI development fuel raises big concerns

Last week Anthropic made headlines for starting to train its AI based on user conversations, but I looked at T&Cs of some of its big competitors, and turns out… they mostly all do it already!

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Non-consensual photo website shut down in Italy after Giorgia Meloni among targets - Euractiv Comes just weeks after Meta shut Facebook group Mia Moglie with 32,000 members

Adult forum Phica. eu was shut down in Italy after photos were posted without women's consent and often manipulated/ accompanied by obscene comments. This is the second such scandal this month in Italy.

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The EDPS greenlighted the Commission's updated contractual relationship with Microsoft, following a March 2024 finding that the Commission breached the EU institutions' data protection rules.

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📢🐳BREAKING: Berlin DPA asked Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from their app stores over privacy concerns and personal data transfers to China.

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Amazon's absence in Parliament hearing sparks further MEP backlash - Euractiv Lawmakers and the e-commerce giant disagree over which executives the company should send.

MEPs were less than happy with Amazon executives not attending the hearing about warehouse working conditions.

The absence was sparked by disagreement over who should attend on Amazon's side.

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Privacy group Noyb field a complaint today against dating app Bumble for its handling of personal data for its AI "Icebreaker" feature.

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EU countries stay split on the tricky issue of lawful access to encrypted data - Euractiv Finding balance between individual privacy and lawful access to data continues to be a head-scratcher.

Euractiv reported first this week that Justice ministers would hold an informal debate on encryption, and balancing law enforcement access to data with privacy.

This is a tricky one, and countries are still scratching their heads on how to tackle it.

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German privacy watchdog scraps plans to stop Meta AI training on personal data - Euractiv Meta started training its AI system on personal data of Instagram and Facebook users as of Tuesday.

📢 BREAKING: The data protection authority in Hamburg decided not to halt Meta's AI training plans as it does not want to be the only EU authority to take such action.

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German court rules against consumer effort to stop Meta training AI on… | Claudie Moreau Meta can use Instagram and Facebook users' public profiles to train its AI systems, the court says. https://lnkd.in/eBN7qZU8

Meta can use Instagram and Facebook users' public profiles to train its AI systems, the court says.

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INTERVIEW: EU missing out on Taiwanese chip investments, says ambassador - Euractiv Singapore, South Korea, and Japan all have ongoing digital partnership talks with the EU. Taiwan has no such formal ties.

I sat down with the Taiwanese ambassador to the EU last week, to talk about what the EU is missing to attract top investments in microchips:

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EU talks focus in on deadlines for non-compliance with GDPR online privacy rules - Euractiv Negotiators are expected to reach a final political agreement.

Most of the GDPR procedural law 4 column document @euractiv.com published yesterday remain valid after no agreement was reached in trilogue last night 👇

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European Commission looks again at its GDPR privacy law - Euractiv The plan is limited to easing record-keeping for smaller businesses, but the Commission is not ruling out a wider reform at a later stage.

Commission ups the rumoured small mid-caps definition: initially expected to be for companies with less than 500 staff, this is now 750 in the final omnibus!

For the GDPR, this does mean easing record-keeping 👇
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