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AI companions pose risk to humans with over dozen harmful behaviours

New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) companions pose understudied risks and harms to the people who engage with them.

03/06/2025

Euronews Debates

Euronews Debates: The future of digital identity

Earlier this week, Euronews hosted a debate on the future of digital identity which featured some of the leading figures in the European technology industry.

15/05/2025

Tech News

Why is Meta's new 'optional' AI tool causing such a stir?

Some users are irritated at the bright blue and pinkish circle now omnipresent in Meta's applications, primarily because of data protection issues.

11/05/2025

Tech News

OpenAI faces complaint after ChatGPT alleged man murdered his sons

The complaint has been filed to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, alleging that OpenAI violates Europe’s GDPR rules.

20/03/2025

Tech News

French people spend about 3.5 hours online every day - survey

A new survey conducted in France found that people spend half of their internet time on very large platforms.

15/11/2024

Tech News

Little progress on suppression of pro-Palestine content, NGOs claim

One year after the escalation between Israel and Hamas, some NGOs claim little progress has been made to stop the suppression of pro-Palestine content.

07/10/2024

Tech News

EU offered 'illegal secret deal,' Musk claims as X found to breach DSA

In a series of posts on X, the billionaire owner of the platform threatened legal action "so that the people of Europe can know the truth"

12/07/2024

Tech News

Euroviews. Will the far right threaten Europe's digital future?

To move away from a technosolutionist approach, it is important to envision a future where technology serves humanity, democracy, and the planet by asking the hard question of how technology enables harmful power dynamics in our society, Claire Fernandez writes.

11/07/2024

Tech News

Spain to introduce age-verification for accessing porn this year

Spanish authorities will be using digital wallets to verify a user’s age online when they try to access porn or adult sites.

05/07/2024

Europe News

Meta's 'pay or consent' policy breaks EU digital rules, says Brussels

Meta's 'pay or consent' model asks users to enable the processing of their personal data or pay a monthly fee.

01/07/2024

Tech News

Euroviews. It's time for a heart-to-heart about the EU's surveillance agenda

The EU must end its shadowy games with the industry, engage in meaningful transparency and respect our fundamental rights, Chloé Berthélémy and Viktoria Tomova write.

08/05/2024

Tech News

Euroviews. Meta must stop charging for people’s right to privacy

EU institutions must put an end to the unjust data processing inherent in pervasive business models like Meta's, which violate people's fundamental rights, Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal writes.

15/04/2024

Health news

Political party websites freezing out voters with disabilities - report

Severe flaws in access to websites and digital channels of the major European political families make it difficult for people with disabilities to cast an informed vote.

11/04/2024

Euronews Tech Talks

Meet the Europeans behind the world’s first AI regulation

Finding a balance between protecting fundamental rights and fostering innovation, drafting laws capable of keeping pace with the artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. These are two of the challenges encountered by MEPs Dragoş Tudorache and Brando Benifei, the co-leaders of the EU AI Act.

19/03/2024

Tech News

Euroviews. Delay, depress, destroy: How Big Tech subverts the EU's new laws

When the DSA and DMA were passed in 2022, major tech industry associations praised the new laws as significant achievements. It is time for Big Tech corporations to stop pouting and live up to their responsibility, Jan Penfrat writes.

06/03/2024

Tech News

How the digital divide affects the LGBTI community globally

The first study of its kind has looked into how the digital divide affects the LGBTI community.

20/02/2024

Tech News

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.

20/02/2024

Tech News

EU digital rights NGOs call for transparency on data access discussion

European digital rights organisations have called in an open letter for more transparency in the experts group that will propose new data access policies for law enforcement.

12/01/2024

Tech News

TikTok removed 4m videos the EU considers illegal or harmful

TikTok published a report regarding its moderation policy, a requirement imposed by the new European legislation on digital services (DSA).

26/10/2023

World News

Euroviews. The Panama Papers proved encryption is a massive asset for democracy

We should celebrate the transformative power of encryption and spotlight the incredible things it has done in the fight to expose injustice and give a voice to the voiceless, Bastian Obermayer writes.

21/10/2023