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Euroviews. Who is looking after us when our digital safety is undermined?

When tech companies’ surveillance business practices facilitate law enforcement’s push for more access to data, movements are silenced and civic spaces for collective organising shrink, Viktoria Tomova writes.

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The proposed technological "solutions" cannot resolve what are actually much more complex societal issues, Ella Jakubowska and Viktoria Tomova write.

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EU digital rights groups are calling for more transparency for a working group on private data access.

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Meta, which owns platforms Facebook and Instagram, is being challenged by consumer groups at the European level for its recently launched ad-free subscription version.

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Amazon Web Services cloud will soon be rolled out across Europe

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Euroviews. Are we about to lose the last pillar of our digital security?

Given the grave consequences for the lives of many, and especially the most marginalised, it is crucial that everyone’s privacy is ensured, Viktoria Tomova and Chloé Berthélémy write.

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The proliferation of sensors in automobiles has made them prodigious data-collection hubs

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Drivers warned their modern vehicles are 'wiretaps on wheels'

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The Digital Services Act is leading to big changes in how internet giants operate in Europe.

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Euroviews. Commissioner Johannson countered privacy concerns with more straw men

The Commissioner's failure to answer the issues we raise shows she knows the European Commission’s regulation on Child Sexual Abuse Material cannot succeed. Instead, the post responds to statements we never made, Carmela Troncoso and Bart Preneel write.

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