🚧 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. 🪧 Yesterday in Brussels, with @PeopleVsBigTech, we launched mobile billboards urging the @European Commission 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 ➡️ image
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: image
🗳️ 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 ➡️ image