Diego Naranjo

📣 New research together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social reveals Big Tech's lobby campaign to kill data protection in Europe. As part of its deregulation agenda, the EU wants to hand over our personal data to AI companies without any safeguards. ✊ But the EU Parliament can still stop this. 🧵

The United Nations Environment Programme warned global warming could reach up to 2.8°C this century if current government policies continue, a worse prediction than last year. This UNEP report is yet another alarm, but governments keep hitting the snooze button. #Cop31

NEW @citizenlab.ca report (in collaboration with SHARE Foundation) We find more cases in Serbia of Pro-Democracy figures' devices targeted with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware citizenlab.ca/research/peg...

An Israeli company infecting devices with spyware via targeted ads. What could go wrong? This: "Devices at international news network Al Jazeera were infected with mercenary spyware via targeted online advertisements." citizenlab.ca/research/how...

The Hungarian government has just proposed a new wealth tax on the country's super rich The EU and other governments should be looking to follow suit – especially when their leaders meet in Brussels this week to discuss the EU budget #TaxTheSuperRich #EUCO #MFF

🔴🟢 Today, we launched gdpr-omnibus.eu/ – a website, where we ranked more than 1,000 amendments to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive. ⁉️ This sheds light on which Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are fighting for people's privacy, and which want to reduce it.

Great to see @euractiv.com's @elisabraun.bsky.social covering European diplomacy's weakness in dealing with US pressure. We have the means to resist pressure and would benefit from doing so, but lack political leaders. www.rapporteur.com/news/eeas-ru...

Statement of 120 organisations across Europe demanding end of public contracts to #Palantir A company avoiding paying a fair share of taxes And which leaders questioning values of equality and democracy Not to Palantir

The EU Kids Act arrived without an impact assessment. Asha Allen of CDT Europe writes that a law with far-reaching fundamental rights implications cannot be shaped outside democratic due process.

📰 "The campaign group which forced the EU's highest court to strike down past US-EU data sharing deals has slammed the latest changes to European data protection laws designed to accommodate AI." #DigitalOmnibus #EU #AI 🔍 Continue reading ▸ www.theregister.com/legal/2026/0...

The far right is winning because people are scared for the future. The left has to combat this fear head on by showing that decline is not inevitable. Another world is possible - but only if we can take on the power of capital. Me for @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/opinion/econ...

#GDPR & #AI - Irish EU Presidency proposes that "AI trumps the GDPR" in new leaked documents. This is nothing but the #DigitalExpropriation of Europeans on behalf of Big Tech.. 😣 noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

🗺️ The European Commission’s deregulation frenzy means attacks on labour rights, climate policies, nature protection, and public health. If you want to know more, join us on a free lobby tour of Brussels on 1st Oct at 5.30pm! ✍ Sign in for free at: ceo@corporateeurope.org

If Trump wants Greenland, he can just order Microsoft to switch off Office 365 for the country and every ministry and significant firm will be shuttered in an instant, along with many households: pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/d... 40/

Alors que la contestation des étudiants serbes contre le régime de Vucic a fait souffler un vent d’espoir, c'est par l'espionnage illégal qu'a répondu le régime pour étouffer l'opposition! #Pegasus C'est ce que révèle aujourd'hui ShareFoundation et @citizenlab.ca www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

REVEALED: #BigTech and #BigOil are teeming up to push new gas-powered #datacentres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emissions, worsening the climate crisis' deadly impacts. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/08/d...

We designated ChatGPT as a VLOSE and Reddit and Roblox as VLOPs under the DSA. These services indicated that they reach at least 45M average monthly users in the EU and thus meet the threshold for designation. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

they’re making ai-generated, pro-concentration camp propaganda

The US State Department has designated A/I, a small Italian provider of open source infrastructure for political activists, as a global terrorist group. They will reach into our very homes to grab us — if we let them. www.state.gov/releases/off...

🍪 Visit killthecookiebanner.eu to learn more and find out how you can take action! #KillTheCookieBanner

German green party of Baden Wurttemberg votes against the use of US company #Palantir Want souvereignty and not dependence on US tech Alas government of Land including Green PM keep contract. The signal is clear enough: ditch the US tech company @purgepalantir.bsky.social

Sanchez is becoming the punch bag of Europe’s right and Trump.

"Big Tech is selling AI to Big Oil to find more fossil fuels to burn, faster" explains DeSmog. "Big Tech has gone from promising climate breakthroughs to breaking the climate." 😡 Fossil fuel-powered data centres + data centre-powered oil & gas expansion = 🔥🌍🔥🌎🔥🌏🔥 www.desmog.com/2026/07/16/b...

Great to see the EU's Digital Markets Act in action 👏. But let's be honest, the fine is pocket change and the behavioural remedies are nice to haves but hardly groundbreaking. To put the fine in context, Alphabet just disclosed its going to spank *$205bn* on AI this year alone.

3 quick takes on the EU Public Procurement Act leak for techies, environmentalists and social justice advocates www.diegonaranjo.eu/3-quick-take...

Facial recognition technology supplied by a Spanish firm and largely banned in the EU is running on around 4,000 cameras across India, Investigate Europe reports.

The EU's dependence on US Big Tech means dependence on US government writes @parismarx.com explaining the imperial project of the US But while EU talks about sovereignty it refuses to consider public ownership of digital infrastructures It can be different: www.socialeurope.eu/europes-digi...

New research from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social shows EU push for rapid expansion of data centres will increase wealth & power of US #BigTech companies ❗Warning❗“Data centre acceleration zones” = fast-tracked construction, bypassing environmental assessment, land permitting + community consultations 🚧

EU Commission plans for social media restrictions: -Phased access to social media+ paired w/ age verification -Safety by design -Parental controls & digital literacy -States may add restrictions for 13+ The report barely discusses the impact on fundamental rights. FoE is not mentioned once.

Ban predatory algorithms instead 🤦🏻‍♀️

"Leftwing lawmakers have warned that the EU Inc proposal could lead to social and regulatory “regime shopping” by allowing companies to choose where they are registered without harmonising labour law. That, they argue, could undermine collective agreements and lead to social dumping."

A proposed change to the German Intelligence Services Law (#BND-Gesetz) would--if enacted--require #cybersecurity authorities to notify any #0day to the German foreign and domestic intelligence service to that they can abuse it until it's fixed. This means friendly hackers that find and notify […]

We call on Ireland to recuse itself from digital and fiscal files during its presidency of the European Union due to the State’s ‘questionable track record’ on digital policy and corporate tax www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

This is correct. The EPP is rolling back climate progress as we face a historic heat wave, undermining tech sovereignty through the Digital Omnibus, pushing far right positions on immigration, and seeking to eliminate encryption protections as authoritarianism rises. Time to cut them loose.

🚨 #ChatControl revient par la petite porte. Après deux rejets du Parlement, une procédure d’urgence contourne les règles et relance la surveillance généralisée des communications privées! Le vote sur le fond interviendra jeudi : le combat continue pr protéger la vie privée et la démocratie

Is this the "AI innovation" we were promised?

‼️ Today, MEPs will vote on whether to fast-track #ChatControl 1.0 back into law. The renewed push for an urgent procedure to reinstate the interim ePrivacy derogation follows an unprecedented intervention by Roberta Metsola, who urged the Council to move the file forward.

Three years ago, the PEGA Committee made concrete recommendations. So far, almost all of them were ignored by the #Commission and Member States. This cannot become just another headline. 7/9

This has been Europe's worst heatwave… so far. Yet this trajectory we are on is also in line with predictions if we don't act on climate change. It should be a major wake up call. Yet the EU is not responding with the urgency required. climate.copernicus.eu/what-do-we-k... 8/

‼️ Breaking! New revelations by @citizenlab.ca: a member of the @europarl.europa.eu "PEGA" inquiry committee into the abuse of spyware was himself targeted with #Pegasus spyware. That is a direct attack on democracy, aiming to eliminate scrutiny. @ec.europa.eu allows it to happen 🧵

Excellent! Who is next? No place for Palantir and Thiel in Europe.

Studies indicate that worker ownership is generally linked to better productivity, pay, job stability, and firm survival. Worker ownership also supports a more sustainable distribution of wealth, with the potential to significantly decrease inequality. wol.iza.org/articles/doe...

If you use Gmail, you need to read this. Google’s AI, Gemini, can read your emails, attachments, bank statements, etc. For many, this feature was switched on without consent. Here's how to turn it off 🧵 1/

The Democratic Technology Alliance is a group bringing together four European Parliament political groups — EPP, Renew, S&D, Greens/EFA — and civil society actors to help bring democracy to technology. We're delighted to host them on Eurosky! 💞🇪🇺 Give them a follow at @democratic.technology!

France joining the countries that drop their cooperation with #Palantir. Good stuff.

New very relevant working paper for those studying issues around procurement of technologies.