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What has the EDRi network been up to over the past few weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our regular newsletter. In this edition: Turning up the heat – Commission backs social media bans, Apple held accountable, summer to-dos, & more!
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The EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is supposed to jump-start Europe’s “sovereign AI” ambitions. But due to fundamental misunderstandings about the technology behind ‘AI’ and the blind trust in Big Tech’s AI doomer and boomer narratives, it is more likely to instead hurt digital rights and the environment instead, and waste valuable public resources that should have been invest...
A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions using AI systems with no human ever reviewing the outcome. EDRi member epicenter.works has sent an open letter to parliament, and is looking for input from readers elsewhere in Europe about how other countries are handling, or planning to handle, the same issue.
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A new report by ARTICLE 19 examines how the European Union is presiding over the most significant expansion of border surveillance in its history. Much of this development is being outsourced to private companies – with profound consequences for privacy and freedom of expression.
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The Portuguese digital rights organisation and EDRi member D3 announces that it has brought four class actions lawsuits against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube over the use of addictive design practices. The cases challenge design practices that can encourage compulsive use of online platforms and seek to hold platforms accountable for the way their services affect us...