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Claudie Moreau
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EU Tech Journalist @Euractiv

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🚨 Latombe readies to appeal his legal challenge to the EU-US data transfer agreement

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EXCLUSIVE: Latombe to appeal EU-US data transfer court challenge | Euractiv
The French MP tells Euractiv he will seek to overturn the lower court's assessment of the validity of transatlantic data flows
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October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Human right NGO the ICCL filed a formal complaint with the Commission against Ireland, over what it believes is a lack of independence in the process which put an ex-Meta lobbyist at the head of the Data Protection Commission.

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Complaint targeting Ireland over privacy watchdog's independence sent to Commission | Euractiv
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties takes formal action questioning the process that led to an ex-Meta lobbyist landing a top privacy oversight job
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October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The Danish Presidency is prepared to put their compromise on the controversial 'chat control' CSAM law to a vote next week in Council. Euractiv got the latest text 👇

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Danish Presidency circulates final 'chat control' text ahead of vote | Euractiv
The text obtained by Euractiv will be presented in a permanent representative meeting on Wednesday
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October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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🚨Follow Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union speech on our liveblog.

We have a dozen reporters analysing every word:

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September 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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📢 I interviewed @noyb.eu's @maxschrems.bsky.social to discuss what he thought of EU-US data transfers, and the outcome of the Latombe case, check out what is next for Data Privacy Framework court challenges:

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Are EU–US data transfers safe from a 'Schrems III' privacy challenge? - Euractiv
After the Latombe challenge failed, Euractiv sat down with privacy activist Max Schrems to discuss where he goes next on EU-US data transfers
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September 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The Commission is gathering industry and civil society feedback on cookies for the digital simplification package, after it dropped the ePrivacy Regulation proposal earlier this year

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Commission eyes cookie banners in digital simplification push - Euractiv
The EU's digital branch will gather views in a closed-door meeting with industry and civil society
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September 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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🚨 Google got slapped with almost €3 billion fine in AdTech antitrust case.... a few days after it was reported that the Commission was holding off the fine to avoid angering the US, my colleague @anupriyadatta.bsky.social reports👇

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EU fines Google €2.95 billion - Euractiv
The US tech giant was fined for violating EU competition rules in the advertising technology market
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September 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🚨A surprise judgment today, as many thought the Court would throw the case on procedural grounds. On substance too, many hoped it would reject the validity of the EU-US data transfer agreement, but the Court found otherwise

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EU-US data transfer deal remains valid after EU court rejects challenge - Euractiv
The ruling on the substance of the legal challenge surprised privacy activists who believed the Court would toss the case on procedural grounds
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September 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Tomorrow could see the EU-US data transfers' legality disrupted - if the court finds that French MP Phillippe Latombe has legal standing - but unlike prior similar instances, the transatlantic relationship is far more tense

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EU-US data transfers face déjà vu moment amid unprecedented political tension - Euractiv
Latombe’s challenge to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, set for a ruling in the EU General Court on Wednesday, lands amid unusually tense transatlantic relations
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September 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Last week Anthropic made headlines for starting to train its AI based on user conversations, but I looked at T&Cs of some of its big competitors, and turns out… they mostly all do it already!

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Psst! Your AI chatbot is feeding on your conversations - Euractiv
Anthropic is the latest chatbot to begin training its AIs on users' conversations, but turning such sensitive personal information into AI development fuel raises big concerns
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September 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Adult forum Phica. eu was shut down in Italy after photos were posted without women's consent and often manipulated/ accompanied by obscene comments. This is the second such scandal this month in Italy.

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Non-consensual photo website shut down in Italy after Giorgia Meloni among targets - Euractiv
Comes just weeks after Meta shut Facebook group Mia Moglie with 32,000 members
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August 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The EDPS greenlighted the Commission's updated contractual relationship with Microsoft, following a March 2024 finding that the Commission breached the EU institutions' data protection rules.

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July 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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📢🐳BREAKING: Berlin DPA asked Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from their app stores over privacy concerns and personal data transfers to China.

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June 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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MEPs were less than happy with Amazon executives not attending the hearing about warehouse working conditions.

The absence was sparked by disagreement over who should attend on Amazon's side.

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Amazon's absence in Parliament hearing sparks further MEP backlash - Euractiv
Lawmakers and the e-commerce giant disagree over which executives the company should send.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Privacy group Noyb field a complaint today against dating app Bumble for its handling of personal data for its AI "Icebreaker" feature.

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June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Euractiv reported first this week that Justice ministers would hold an informal debate on encryption, and balancing law enforcement access to data with privacy.

This is a tricky one, and countries are still scratching their heads on how to tackle it.

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EU countries stay split on the tricky issue of lawful access to encrypted data - Euractiv
Finding balance between individual privacy and lawful access to data continues to be a head-scratcher.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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📢 BREAKING: The data protection authority in Hamburg decided not to halt Meta's AI training plans as it does not want to be the only EU authority to take such action.

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German privacy watchdog scraps plans to stop Meta AI training on personal data - Euractiv
Meta started training its AI system on personal data of Instagram and Facebook users as of Tuesday.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Meta can use Instagram and Facebook users' public profiles to train its AI systems, the court says.

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German court rules against consumer effort to stop Meta training AI on… | Claudie Moreau
Meta can use Instagram and Facebook users' public profiles to train its AI systems, the court says. https://lnkd.in/eBN7qZU8
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May 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I sat down with the Taiwanese ambassador to the EU last week, to talk about what the EU is missing to attract top investments in microchips:

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INTERVIEW: EU missing out on Taiwanese chip investments, says ambassador - Euractiv
Singapore, South Korea, and Japan all have ongoing digital partnership talks with the EU. Taiwan has no such formal ties.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Most of the GDPR procedural law 4 column document @euractiv.com published yesterday remain valid after no agreement was reached in trilogue last night 👇

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EU talks focus in on deadlines for non-compliance with GDPR online privacy rules - Euractiv
Negotiators are expected to reach a final political agreement.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Commission ups the rumoured small mid-caps definition: initially expected to be for companies with less than 500 staff, this is now 750 in the final omnibus!

For the GDPR, this does mean easing record-keeping 👇
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European Commission looks again at its GDPR privacy law - Euractiv
The plan is limited to easing record-keeping for smaller businesses, but the Commission is not ruling out a wider reform at a later stage.
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May 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Check out the draft startups & scaleups strategy that @nicolettaionta.bsky.social and I obtained.

This is the EU's plan for innovative companies to escape the "valleys of death": innovations failing before reaching market & difficulty to move past "growth stage."

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EXCLUSIVE: Commission to slash startup bureaucracy under new plan - Euractiv
The strategy is expected to be presented at the end of May, with changes planned for 2025 and 2026.
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May 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The Culture Council approved the conclusions on audiovisual services and video-sharing platforms today. Among the top priorities: prominence rules for general interest content to boost media pluralism, fight disinformation👇

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Council urges greater support for traditional media in fight against disinformation - Euractiv
The Council conclusions will inform the Commission's scheduled review of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, due in December 2026.
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May 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The EDPB and EDPS sent a letter to Commissioner McGrath supporting preliminarily the Commission's plans to ease GDPR record-keeping obligations for small mid-caps

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European privacy watchdogs back easing record-keeping rules for smaller firms - Euractiv
The Commission intends to exempt organisations with less than 500 employees from record-keeping under the GDPR.
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May 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Take your guess on how tariffs on films could even apply 👇

But it is not the first time Trump says he is unhappy with foreign-made movies and EU’s audiovisual law.

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American Sniper: Trump threat on movie tariffs catches EU filmmakers off guard - Euractiv
Even if Trump is serious, taxing films isn’t as straightforward as taxing cars or steel.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM