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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · 1d

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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Reposted by Claudie Moreau

Eddy Wax @eddywax.bsky.social · 28d

🚨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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · 29d

📢 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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Sep 8

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨 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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Sep 1

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢🐳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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Jun 13

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 27

📢 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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 23

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 23

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 22

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 21

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 14

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 13

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 9

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 8

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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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · May 7

The Irish Data Protection Commission handed one of its biggest fines to TikTok, but views are divided on whether it is getting tougher on GDPR enforcement.

Irish privacy watchdog barks, but activists question its bite - Euractiv

Its latest fine against TikTok, over data transfers to China, is the third-largest ever imposed by the Irish regulator.

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Claudie Moreau @claudiemoreau.bsky.social · Apr 23

Another grim report from child protection NGO Internet Watch Foundation, that calls on the EU institutions to hurry to finalise the CSAM law 👇

Child pornography websites thriving inside EU, NGO says - Euractiv

Poland has seen an 86-fold increase in such webpages hosted in the country since 2023.

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