Tag: European Union

As the European Union finalises new digital-era laws, its legacy of world-leading privacy and data protection is at stake. The European Commission will kick off the introduction of landmark legislative proposals that have implications for the future of the General Data Protection Regulation and the rights this flagship law protects.

Access Now is calling out the Council of the European Union for failing to reconsider and strengthen the EU dual-use recast compromise amendments. Council members must urgently reevaluate their positions to meet their human rights obligations. 

Tech companies are exercising enormous power without taking sufficient responsibility to safeguard our rights, leaving us prey to abuse. The Digital Services Act is a chance for the EU to establish clear responsibilities for private actors and hold them to account, while ensuring our rights are protected.

Debunking AI myths may help us avoid blind techno-solutionism, to craft evidence-based public policy that supports AI uptake only when machine-learning systems are actually fit-for-purpose, and center and respect people and their rights.

In the European Union, a Regulation to address terrorism-related content is nearing the end of negotiation, but it still relies heavily on automated measures without sufficient transparency or accountability safeguards built in to protect Europeans’ fundamental rights.