1/5📍#ChatControl: Today, following a lot of public pressure, representatives of the EU member states have finally agreed on their position to remove arguably the most controversial part of the #CSARegulation: the requirement for message and email services to scan users' private communications. 🔑 This is a key development. We, along with hundreds of experts, have criticised this part of the law for undermining the presumption of innocence and posing an existential threat to #encryption.

2/2 In 2026, the Commission is preparing even broader expansions of Europol and Frontex powers, deepening the criminalisation of migration, solidarity, and dissent. The fight is not over. ✊🏾 As #ProtectNotSurveil, we’re building collective resistance to stop the expansion of the EU’s digital surveillance state and to protect everyone’s rights and safety. Read our analysis of the expansion of Europol's powers ➡️ 📄.pdf

1/2 🚨 Today the European Parliament voted to expand Europol’s powers and funding, accelerating the growth of the EU’s digital #surveillance state. What this means: ❌ More biometric surveillance ❌ More mass data collection ❌ More data-sharing with non-EU authorities All pushed through under the false pretext of “fighting migrant smuggling.” And the worst is yet to come...

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We @edri wrote a very short op-ed walking through what the #DigitalOmnibus (in terms of both substance and process) means for people’s everyday d...

📝 Read this fantastic op-ed by our very own @npub1z72c...cfx0 about the "sweeping rewrite of the EU’s core digital protections" in the #DigitalOmnibus proposals presented by the European Commission last week. 🚨 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 ⤵️ View quoted note →