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Exposed: Big Tech is rewriting the rules globally 🚨

In the Big Tech Lobby Playbook we reveal how these giants are shaping laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.

Spoiler alert: their influence is unprecedented. 🧐

Read our analysis:
www.somo.nl/big-tech-lob...

Trade union and NGO coalition calls out corporate "shadow roadmap" dictating EU agenda | Corporate Europe Observatory A coalition of major civil society and trade union organisations has issued a joint declaration to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, stating that the EU Commission is prioritising a ...

🚨 Tomorrow, von der Leyen meets corporate lobbyists just hours before EU leader retreat.

Trade union and NGO coalition warns against an (E)U-turn on protections.

We call for rules that protect democracy, people & planet - not polluters.

📄 Joint Declaration:
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/t...

The Authoritarian Stack: Mapping Big Tech’s Capture of State Power - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung A new project exposes the infrastructure of techno-oligarchic control — and why Europe must act

"In Germany, Palantir has supplied software for counter-terrorism and law enforcement(...). In Brussels, officials privately admit that the EU’s migration agenda is now technologically dependent on US-born systems." www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

The European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in violation of the Digital Services Act on Friday, for breaching the EU’s addictive design rules — such as not adequately assessing addiction risk and implementing weak mitigation features

Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media | Corporate Europe Observatory As the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech aggressively protects its business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to joi...

The EU Commission is preparing a Digital Fairness Act with measures against addictive design of social media 👏

Our new investigation reveals intense #lobbying by Big Tech to block such measures 🚨

Will EU decision-makers stand up against Big Tech lobbying?

#DFA

corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears Washington is demanding access to sensitive data as ICE heightens fears in Europe.

The US is asking access to EU data of citizens to impose its authoritarian surveillance views on the EU. The EU will negotiate with someone who called the ICU nurse Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist
EU government and
@hennavirkkunen.bsky.social are ok... "will be limited"

Who believes those folks

‼️ Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality.

Read Oxfam's new report ahead of #Davos 🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

#RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich
#WEF26

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...

🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.

Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

Access Now - #KeepItOn: Iran plunged into digital darkness, concealing human rights abuses join the international community, including the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, in calling on Iran to immediately restore internet and mobile communications and in demanding accou...

After taking to the streets, people in Iran have now been disconnected from the rest of the world for more than five days. That’s +120 hours in the dark!

Alongside +19 orgs, we demand that authorities immediately restore internet access and uphold rights.

www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

2026 - The year we fight back Everywhere I look in my professional and personal circles, things look rather depressing. Whether the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Russian's invasion of Ukraine, the latest Trump's attack on democra...

In my last working hours of 2025 I have chosen to look forward to 2026 with hope, ambition, and courage (despite feeling otherwise). The pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will, as Gramsci put it.

Let's take the power (and the tech) back in 2026. www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-y...

The French intelligence agaency DGSI renews its contract with Palantir.

Register for a eurosky.social account - one web identity, dozens of apps — eurosky

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026.

✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative
✅ Hosted on European cloud
✅ Governed by European law

www.eurosky.social/register

The Digital Omnibus: Deregulation Dressed as Innovation The EU's sweeping data and AI package loosens safeguards for workers while promising competitiveness gains that will flow mainly to US tech giants.

ICYMI
The EU's digital omnibus is deregulation dressed up as innovation and weakens also rights and protections of workers

by Aida Ponce @etui.bsky.social

@epsu.bsky.social

On deregulation see @corporateeurope.org
On how the omnibus attacks GDPR rules see @noyb.eu
On big tech @parismarx.com

Palantir should not be anywhere near critical systems in Europe. Yet national government are quietly allowing it to operate inside intel services, police and public health systems. This should be banned instantly

"Red-tape cutting has become a ‘terrible political spectacle,’ EU’s Ribera says. The European Commission’s No.2 official criticized a “Trumpist” approach to EU #deregulation." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

Good round-up of current state of affairs on ICC, Microsoft and which EU state and sub-state entities have publicly abandoned US tech for open source solutions:

"larger geopolitical trend of States and the UN embracing OSS as a critical tool for realising their digital autonomy and resilience."

Recommendation on the European Commission’s compliance with ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements in preparing legislative proposals that it considered to be urgent (983/2025/MAS... The three cases concern how the European Commission applied its ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements when preparing legislative pro...

OMNIBUS I found in breach of EU law as it departed from basic procedural guarantees such as public consultation.

This @ombudsman.europa.eu recommendation carries important implications for omnibuses to come and the whole simplification agenda www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommend...

The real winners of the AI Race : Amazon, Google, Microsoft - SOMO Who really profits from the 'AI race'? Amazon, Google, and Microsoft own the AI infrastructure, and startups are dependent on Big Tech firms.

When EU digital sovereignty started gained traction it was grounded to a different way of doing business, one bound by EU rules.

With this week's #DigitalOmnibus ,the EU is sacrificing digital rules for the sake of an over-hyped AI race.

Who wins? Big Tech of course
www.somo.nl/the-real-win...

Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles The EU Commission has published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus". The planned changes to the GDPR would lower protections for Europeans

❗🇪🇺 The ‘Digital Omnibus’ has now been officially presented by the European #Commission.👀 Read all about what this means for the #GDPR on our website 👉 noyb.eu/en/digital-o...

Digital Omnibus: When “Simplification” Becomes a Security Risk Under the banner of “simplification,” the European Commission plans to revise core pieces of digital protection: from data protection to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. What sounds like cutting red tape could, in reality, erode Europe’s digital safeguards. Instead of clarity and strategic direction, fundamental rights, security, and trust risk being sacrificed to a misguided deregulatory logic.

📰 "With the 'Digital Omnibus', the #Commission claims to reduce burdens and simplify regulation for businesses. However, this premise rests on a misleading assumption: that Europe’s #innovation is being held back by excessive regulation."

Read more 👉 epicenter.works/en/content/d...

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros!

As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

Data collection at scale is a national security issue. This trading is happening even with GDPR protections.

And yet the Commission is advocating changes that would remove such data from the scope of the regulation.

Governments cannot close the emissions gap without slashing the carbon footprint of the super-rich and addressing extreme inequality. COP30 must be a turning point. Global leaders must cut the emissions of the richest, tax rich polluters and their profits, and deliver a just transition

REACTION: Latest UNEP Emissions Gap report shows that the super-rich are putting world on track for climate catastrophe❗️

More 👉 oxf.am/emissions-gap

#MakeRichPollutersPay #EmissionsGap

I remember when the CSO/Big Tech gap was huge in 2014 when I started working on digital rights in Brussels. The gap is just exploding now. Thankfully, many CSOs started working on digital since then and there is a growing opposition to Big Tech domination and the de-regulatory agenda.

Developing countries at risk from EU’s simplification drive, UN warns Bid by Brussels to cut red tape is too dominated by politics, top officials say

Doing things simpler may be a good idea. Deregulating may leave people behind and incentivise 27 different answers to replace the common one.

www.ft.com/content/adba...

An image illustrating the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA). The background is a dark purple with a binary code pattern of '0's and '1's. In the center, nine yellow icons representing DSA themes are arranged in a circular formation, similar to the stars on the EU flag. These icons include a bell, a locked padlock, a crossed-out 'AD' symbol indicating a restriction on advertising, a magnifying glass over a document for transparency, a shielded checkmark for safety, and a crossed-out symbol likely relating to content moderation or tracking. Below this visual representation, the text in large white letters states DIGITAL SERVICES ACT, followed by a smaller line of text that reads "TikTok and Meta preliminarily found in breach of their transparency obligations." A small European Commission logo is located in the bottom right corner.

Preliminary findings:

🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.

🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.

This is a duty, not a choice.

link.europa.eu/JYQrBX

We are publishing an "Ideas for Europe" series from leading experts on how Europe can turn its sovereignty ambitions into action. In this piece, MEP @alexandrageese.bsky.social asks: Does Europe lack control over the digital infrastructure it depends on?

www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-...

Europe’s punitive welfare systems are fuelling the far-right As Europe punishes its poorest citizens, the far-right finds fertile ground to flourish, warns Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. And this pro-welfare stance is paying off. Far-right parties in Sweden and Austria have seen their ratings rise as they promise more state spending on citizens.

Europe’s punitive welfare systems are fuelling the far-right

🇵🇸 what a nice excuse to upgrade to a paid plan with Proton ⤵️

🇪🇺💰How ‘independent’ can Brussels-based think tanks really be when one third of their funding comes from the U.S?

🔗 Read what this means for Europe:
www.ftm.eu/articles/a-t...