Aylo, Pornhub’s parent company, is appealing to the CJEU to avoid having to disclose the natural names of users in its ad repository, as required by its #DSA designation. Euractiv Euractiv Technology euractiv.com/section/platfo…

EU Commission opens stakeholder participation in drafting general-purpose AI code of practice ift.tt/HcC89I6

Russia is releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan in a major multi-country prisoner swap trib.al/PfAbeK5

A day after consumer organisations alleged that X violated the #GDPR in a complaint filed with the Data Protection Commission Ireland, the Irish DPC initiated court proceedings against the social media platform.👇 euractiv.com/section/data-p… Euractiv Technology Euractiv

Some professional news: Got my first official press response from X on this, in which they sent me the link to their post that we had already referenced. Baby steps! x.com/GlobalAffairs/…

European Commission opposes amending GDPR, focusing on enforcement instead ift.tt/oFyaTce

Europe’s teenage ‘TikTok terrorists’ target Taylor Swift ift.tt/q7GHlOB

X suspends processing of some personal data for AI training ift.tt/mai3YKj

The X data saga continues: just days after X said it would pause user data processing for its AI tool, Grok, the platform faced nine new data protection complaints today filed by noyb. By Eliza Gkritsi for Euractiv Technology Euractiv euractiv.com/section/data-p…

The European Commission described the EU response to the Athens wildfires, announced several hours after they had spread into the suburbs, as "extremely" quick #φωτιες tinyurl.com/4ahmnevx

By only focusing on firefighting without a prevention-focused holistic approach, it will be hard for the EU countries to face future wildfires, an expert from Greece, where thousands of hectares of forest were burned in a couple of days, told Euractiv. 🔗eurac.tv/9XdR

✋The EU's border agency Frontex is spending almost €200 million on drones ✋ Frontex's use of drones has previously been linked to human rights abuses in the Mediterranean Eliza Gkritsi and I have the story 👇 euractiv.com/section/politi…

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined Clearview AI €30.5 million today, for illegally building a database with over 30 billion photos. euractiv.com/section/data-p…

Court proceedings by the Irish DPC against X are officially over as of today after the company agreed to permanently stop processing some personal data collected in the EU for training AI. W/ Théophane Hartmann for Euractiv Technology Euractiv euractiv.com/section/artifi…

Back to Brussels today and the games have officially begun...

💸💸 Wanna make #money easily ??? 🚀🚀 This woman just made 15.4 BILLION EUROS before 10AM, using this simple trick ⤵️⤵️ #antitrust #CJEU #art102tfeu #BigTechHateHer

Today, Google joined the group of tech companies under scrutiny for personal data processing in AI training euractiv.com/section/artifi…

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues in the College, Commission services, MEPs, Member States, and my team. Together, we have worked tirelessly to advance an ambitious EU agenda. It has been an honour & privilege to serve the common European interest🇪🇺

Tech sovereignty gets its own executive vice-president in the new Commission w/ Eliza Gkritsi | Euractiv & Euractiv Technology euractiv.com/section/digita…

Recommending the Draghi, Letta and upcoming Niinistö reports as inspiration, Von der Leyen asks 30 tech deliverables in the mission letters to the new commissioners. Get an overview here: euractiv.com/section/indust…