AI Omnibus: deregulation at the expense of fundamental rights
Read our blog on how the EU’s AI Omnibus weakens key protections against harmful AI and opens the door to weakening other EU digital laws.
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Your rights and AI: new REFRAIME campaign
The REFRAIME project launches awareness campaign on AI and fundamental rights.
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Civil disobedience in digitally networked spaces
This research paper explores migrant protests, criminalisation, and relevant international human rights standards.
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Tbilisi Principles: Ensuring crisis response reaches those most in need
Frameworks that protect financial integrity should not slow down lifesaving aid for vulnerable communities in the Middle East and beyond.
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How AI is powering transnational repression
This scoping study examines the growing use of digital technologies by governments to suppress dissent beyond their borders, with a particular focus on how AI is transforming transnational repression.
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Five critical lessons from three years of DSA risk assessments
Our new policy brief analyses platform risk assessments, and sets out how they can be strengthened to become meaningful tools for transparency under the EU Digital Services Act.
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Fourth Civic Space Watch alerts under MACS
Here are the latest developments in European civic space emerging from the Early Warning and Alert System, developed as part of the MACS (Monitoring Action for Civic Space) project.
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When national security becomes a shield for evading AI accountability
To protect fundamental rights, AI-enabled national security initiatives require urgent limits, says ECNL in Tech Policy Press blog.
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European CSOs publish seven new country reports on civic space trends across the EU
Based on a new methodology, the MACS reports reveal the trends that shaped civic action in 2025 and identify next steps needed to protect it.
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