EDRi-gram, 8 October 2026
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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EDRi-gram, 8 October 2026
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 Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) represents everything that’s wrong with Europe’s approach to digital sovereignty
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 invested in actually increasing Europe’s digital resilience. The Cloud and AI Development (CADA) Act, a part of the Tech Sovereignty Package, adds up to an aggressive policy push to impose “European AI”.
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No human required: Austria’s plan for AI-only government decisions
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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D3 brings class actions on addictive design against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
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 users. Similar initiatives might come up in other EU Member States as part of a broader European response.
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The KIDS Act will make the internet less safe
On 16 September, the European Commission presented the KIDS ACT, its plan for making online experiences safer for young people. Far from being a move to lead the EU towards better digital environments, this move is a missed opportunity to address the root cause of why online platforms are harmful to children – and everyone else. This blog analyse the proposal’s shortcomings.
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EDRi-gram, 23 September 2026
What has the EDRi network been up to over the past few weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: Turning up the heat – Commission backs social media bans, Apple held accountable, summer to-dos, & more!
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Why the EU age-verification tool does not solve privacy concerns
An EU legislative proposal for a social media ban will be presented at the State of the European Union (SOTEU) annual address, but the tools which are pitched as “ready” and “privacy-preserving” fail on both counts. Here is a technical account of the shortcomings.
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#PrivacyCamp26: Call for sessions
Privacy Camp hosts its 14th edition on 13 October 2026, in Brussels and online. For people living in Europe and across the globe, the impact technology has on our lives becomes ever more acute, ever more heavy and impossible to deny. Digital technologies shape how people work, organise, communicate, access services, cross borders, learn, create and resist. They can support community power and collective care. They can also deepen surveillance, extraction, discrimination, militarisation and environmental harm.
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EDRi-gram, 16 July 2026
What has the EDRi network been up to over the past few weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: Turning up the heat – Commission backs social media bans, Apple held accountable, summer to-dos, & more!
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EDRi-gram, 1 July 2026
What has the EDRi network been up to over the past few weeks? Find out the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter. In this edition: The heat is on
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EDRi Annual Report 2025: Championing digital rights in the deregulation era
In 2025, the EU entered an era of deregulation in which hard-fought digital rights protections are being diluted. With our long-term vision for digital futures in mind, EDRi's work in 2025 focused on protecting digital rights legislation and advocating for human-centred perspectives. We also adopted our new agile and responsive strategy which will guide our work for the next five years.
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What’s behind the EU’s digitalisation push? Surveillance, control and exclusion
The EU institutions have been engaged in a broad and wholesale digitalisation project but underneath the rhetoric of efficiency, modernisation, and citizen empowerment lies a more troubling reality. It is not a mere technical upgrade of public services, but a political choice, long in the making, to forego care and rights of individuals in favour of normalising surveillance, control and exclusion of the most marginalised. This blog explores the various facets of the EU’s digital welfare state push, and what it means for the relationship between people and the state.
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