RE: https://eupolicy.social/@itxaso/115603868582421042
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Read this fantastic op-ed by our very own @itxaso@eupolicy.social about the "sweeping rewrite of the EU’s core digital protections" in the #DigitalOmnibus proposals presented by the European Commission last week.
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Itxaso touches on which of our #DigitalRights are under threat and what happens to our lives if they fall - including implications for how we access healthcare, apply for a job, seek housing, or move through public space ⤵
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We @edri@eupolicy.social wrote a very short op-ed walking through what the #DigitalOmnibus (in terms of both substance and process) means for people’s everyday digital life (and thus rights) and why the moment deserves attention. https://www.context.news/digital-rights/opinion/europe-is-dismantling-its-digital-rights-from-within?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lin-taylor-context
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Europe faces a defining choice: uphold our digital laws & defend European digital self-determination, or cave to pressure from Trump, Big Tech and corporate lobbies.
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Yesterday in Brussels, with @PeopleVsBigTech, we launched mobile billboards urging the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu to stand up for its citizens & democracy.
The “Digital Omnibus” would reopen and weaken the GDPR, ePrivacy & the AI Act, lowering safeguards & expanding surveillance by both states & corporations
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️ https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨
The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the #GDPR, #ePrivacy and the #AIAct.
Weakening these safeguards would entrench #surveillance, profiling and algorithmic #discrimination in every aspect of society 🙅🏾
Read our press release for more details: https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
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️ Last Thursday, the European Parliament approved the EU–Singapore Digital Trade Agreement, rejecting a motion to refer it to the Court of Justice for a legality check.
Under the banner of “free trade,” this binding deal prioritises business over privacy, accountability, and democratic control of digital systems.
What’s at stake isn’t just one agreement with Singapore: embedding weak safeguards in trade law now could lock in lower standards for years to come.
More ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/eu-adopts-digital-trade-agreement-with-singapore-despite-warnings-a-setback-for-digital-rights-and-democratic-oversight/
Europe’s digital rights are on the chopping block.
We - 127 CSOs & trade unions - are sounding the alarm over the European Commission’s forthcoming #DigitalOmnibus proposals.
Behind “simplification” lies a deregulation agenda that threatens the EU's digital framework - GDPR, ePrivacy, AI Act, DSA & DMA - the very laws that keep our data safe, hold govts & corporations accountable, prevent AI from determining our life chances, & protect us from mass surveillance.
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️ : https://edri.org/our-work/forthcoming-digital-omnibus-would-mark-point-of-no-return/
The European Parliament’s LIBE Committee has backed a new Europol Regulation granting the agency unprecedented powers to collect, process & share personal data — including biometrics & facial recognition — with non-EU states.
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️ If approved in plenary later this month, it will hand Europol vast surveillance powers, further entrenching the EU’s criminalisation of migration & solidarity.
🗳️ MEPs still have one last chance to stop this dystopian reform: vote NO in plenary.
https://edri.org/our-work/european-parliament-backs-europol-expansion-a-dangerous-step-towards-mass-surveillance-in-the-eu/
We're finally coming back down to earth after the infectious energy and momentum of #PrivacyCamp25
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If you miss us, check out our photo gallery and relive your favourite moments of the day: https://privacycamp.eu/photos-privacycamp25/
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All photos by @Omarhavana@mastodon.art
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Huge thanks to all our sponsors for making #PrivacyCamp25 possible: @EDPS@social.edps.europa.eu as our general event partner, @nordvpn@bird.makeup, @Surfshark@mastodon.social, @flokinet@flokinet.social, Center for AI and Digital Policy , Kobler, Amnezia VPN and Tech Hive Advisory 👏🏽
1/3 🚨 On 5 November, MEPs in the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament will vote on a new #Europol Regulation, part of the EU’s so-called “Facilitators Package.”
Behind the rhetoric of fighting “smuggling,” this reform expands Europol’s #MassSurveillance powers & threatens #FundamentalRights
Here’s how 👇🏾
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The latest edition of your favourite #DigitalRights newsletter is out! This time, we're grappling with changing seasons 🍂
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️ and much more. In this #EDRigram, read about:
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Budget cuts impairing Austria's #DataProtection Authority, and what NGOs are doing about it
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A new book on #spyware reiterating the call for a ban
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️ EDRi's take on #DigitalFairness and what we'd like to see in the upcoming #DFA
... and more! https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-29-october-2025/
Much of today’s internet exploits attention & vulnerability instead of supporting free, informed choice.
The Digital Fairness Act (DFA) can change that, by banning manipulative design & making fairness-by-design the norm.
EDRi has submitted its response to the European Commission's call for evidence, urging:
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Bans on manipulative design
🔴 Fair defaults & real consent
🔴 Behavioural design impact checks
🔴 Strong, coordinated enforcement
Read more ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/a-fair-digital-future-at-risk-edri-contribution-to-the-digital-fairness-act/
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Itxaso Dominguez