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🚀 The CDT Europe team keeps on growing!
We welcome our new Online Expression & Civic Space Programme Director, Christian Cirhigiri!
Previously at Search for Common Ground Europe, he will now lead our policy advocacy around the implementation of the #DSA and online fundamental rights protection.
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📢 In the context of the ongoing trilogue negotiations on the #AI Omnibus proposal, together with 32 other organisations and individuals, we contributed to an open letter to EU institutions, expressing our concerns about current proposals that could weaken the scope and effectiveness of the AI Act.
🛑 CDT Europe welcomes last week’s European Parliament’s vote not to extend #ChatControl 1.0, which should serve as an important opportunity to reset the direction of the #CSAM trilogue negotiations.
👇🏻 Read our full statement:
#Privacy #Surveillance
📢 March’s edition of our EU Tech Policy Brief is out now!
In this issue:
👁️ First meeting of the Community of Practice on Human Rights Defenders Protection for Europe.
💬 Our brief on EU law to combat #deepfakes.
⚖️ #AI Act Explainer on GPAI models.
👉 Read more & sign up: cdt.org/insights/eu-...
📩 March’s edition of the #AIBulletin is out now!
This month:
🔹 The EP and Council finalising their #AI Omnibus positions
🔹 Recommendations by the EP on protecting copyrights from AI
🔹 2nd draft of the AI Act’s CoP on AI-generated content labels
👇 Read more & sign up:
Excited to join the @cdteu.org team and to continue working with the brilliant civil society ecosystem that has been pushing for years to expose the harms of spyware and surveillance technologies, and bring about accountability!
Deeply grateful for almost 4 amazing years @accessnow.org.
Onward!
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📢 A new colleague joins the CDT Europe team!
🌟 @randham.bsky.social is the new Director of the Security, Surveillance and Human Rights Programme.
Previously at @accessnow.org, she is an expert on #spyware, targeted #surveillance and the protection of human rights.
Excited to have her on board!
After X’s Grok new feature led to floods of non‑consensual deepfakes, targeting mostly women and minors, our new brief explores how EU laws - from the AI Act to the DSA - can curb AI‑generated #NCII & #CSAM.
A multi‑pronged, enforced approach is crucial.
👇🏻 Read the full brief on our website:
📢 February’s edition of our EU Tech Policy Brief is out now!
👁️ CSOs letter against #ePrivacy directive’s derogation
💬 Our participation to events on the #DSA and #gender
⚖️ Our new report on effective remedies for #AI harms
👇 Read more & sign up:
📩 February’s edition of the #AIBulletin is out now!
This month:
🔹 European Parliament’s amendments to the AI Omnibus
🔹 Whatsapp’s AI update potentially breaching EU competition law
🔹 European Ombudswoman’s inquiry on AI use in EU funding proposals’ evaluation
👇 Read more & sign up:
A huge thanks to these people & others for their contributions to the report @ashaoallen.bsky.social, @aimeedm.bsky.social, @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social, @nathaliemarechal.net, @marcoalmada.com, @louisebeltzung.bsky.social, @itxasdo.bsky.social, @linnhogasen.bsky.social, @claudio-teixeira.bsky.social
🔹 Reviving AI liability Directive & ensuring future legislation addresses AI-specific harms
🔹 Exploring pathways for private enforcement under the AI Act
👉 Read the full report on our website: cdt.org/insights/a-l...
🔹 Making transparency meaningful, including clarifying the right to an explanation
🔹 Ensuring redress for both material and non-material harms
🔹 Harmonising and strengthening oversight by market surveillance authorities
To close this gap, we recommend:
🔹 Strengthening collective action mechanisms
🔹 Properly resourcing enforcement authorities and building AI expertise
🔹 Introducing stronger procedural safeguards (including reversal of the burden of proof)
🔴 Our core finding: the AI Act alone cannot guarantee access to effective remedies.
Accountability requires more than compliance rules, it requires enforceable rights and accessible redress.
We look beyond the AI Act.
We analyse data protection, equality & non-discrimination, consumer protection and product liability law to assess whether they can fill existing gaps, and where structural weaknesses remain.
⚖️ When #AI systems cause harm, where can people turn for redress?
📢 In our new report, CDT Europe examines whether the EU legal framework truly delivers effective remedies for AI-related harms, and what needs to change.
A stellar line-up to kick things off at the 2026 @dsaobservatory.bsky.social conference in Amsterdam, featuring @hutko.bsky.social, @rachelgriffin.bsky.social, @knightgtown.bsky.social, @cdteu.org, and Roberto Spano 👏
@laquadrature.bsky.social, @lafedecat.bsky.social, @panoptykon.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy, @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social, @thegoodlobby.bsky.social, @wikimediade.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social
@5rightsfound.bsky.social, @aiforensics.org, @algorithmwatch.org, @amnestyeu.bsky.social, @article19europe.bsky.social, @beuc.eu, @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social, @thecoalition.bsky.social, @corporateeurope.org, @epicenter.works, @ecnl.bsky.social, @myedf.bsky.social, @eeb.org, @iccl.bsky.social
📢 ✍🏻 Today, with a group of 60 CSOs and experts, we signed an open letter by @accessnow.org and EDRi, to urge the EU to reject the deletion of the AI Act’s Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk #AI systems, proposed in the recent AI Omnibus.
👇🏻 Read the full letter here:
No more AI Act loopholes!
We demand that EU co-legislators reject attempts to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act.
Read more in our open letter ⬇️
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🗓️On 19 Feb, join us for a webinar co-organised with Hermes Center on “Effective Redress for #AI Harms in Europe: Charting a Path Forward”.
👉🏻 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/effective-...
📢 Our first EU Tech Policy Brief of the year is out!
👁️ Defending end-to-end encryption in the EU CSA Regulation
💬 New analysis on tech-facilitated gender-based violence
⚖️ Gender equality & rights in #AI governance
🛑 Why weakening the #GDPR puts privacy at risk
👇🏻 Read more and subscribe
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Happy (?) European Data Protection Day!
10 years after its adoption, the GDPR remains the backbone of the EU’s digital rulebook. But the proposed Digital Omnibus risks weakening its very core: the definition of personal data.
🛑 To co-legislators: Hold the line on the GDPR.
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📩 Our first 2026 edition of the #AIBulletin is out now!
This month:
🔹 Draft Code of Practice on labelling AI-generated content
🔹 Grok deepfake scandal on X & calls to ban nudification apps
🔹 Resistance to the AI omnibus with pushback from EDPB & EDPS
👇 Read here
cdt.org/insights/cdt...
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Big news, we’re designing a new website and we need your input!
👇🏻 Take a short survey to let us know what you want to see on our new website: www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP6WY2X