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Diego Naranjo
@diegonaranjo.bsky.social
Advisor for non-profits on human rights and technology | EU advocacy trainings | labour rights at heart | photographer by night
President of the EMAlumni association and Advisory Board Member World Ethical Data Foundation
www.diegonaranjo.eu
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...
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...
www.linkedin.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The French intelligence agaency DGSI renews its contract with Palantir.
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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
Register for a eurosky.social account - one web identity, dozens of apps — eurosky
www.eurosky.social
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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
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.
www.socialeurope.eu
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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"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...
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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."
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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...
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...
www.ombudsman.europa.eu
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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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...
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.
www.somo.nl
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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❗🇪🇺 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: 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
noyb.eu
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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📰 "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...
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.
epicenter.works
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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🚨 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✊
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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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.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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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
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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.
📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power:

💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day

@lobbycontrol.bsky.social
Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.
corporateeurope.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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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...
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
www.ft.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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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
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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-...
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🇵🇸 what a nice excuse to upgrade to a paid plan with Proton ⤵️
proton.me Proton @proton.me · Oct 23
To help alleviate the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, Proton has donated $100,000 to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and other aid organizations working on the ground.
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🇪🇺💰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...
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Exploring the European Commission's 2026 Work Programme: Key items for Rule of Law and Technology... and the missing ambitions 😒 www.diegonaranjo.eu/ec-work-prog...
Exploring the European Commission's 2026 Work Programme: Enhancements for Rule of Law and Technology | Diego Naranjo
www.diegonaranjo.eu
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I have supported @liberties.eu in the preparation of the submission to the consultation on the Digital Omnibus:
- 🛡️Data Protection and Privacy
- 🤖 Artificial Intelligence: Safeguarding Standards
- 🌳 Simplification Must Serve the People, Not Corporations
www.liberties.eu/en/stories/d...
Liberties’ Submission on the “Simplification – Digital Package and Omnibus” Call for Evidence
Liberties calls on the European Commission to prioritize fundamental rights over corporate convenience and resist deregulatory pressure.
www.liberties.eu
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"Signal, an encrypted messaging service designed to resist government surveillance and corporate data harvesting, becomes unreachable because Amazon’s servers fail. Wikipedia (...) relies on the same centralized infrastructure as multinational banks." www.techpolicy.press/amazon-cloud...
Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le.
www.techpolicy.press
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Me alegra por fin ver poco a poco que se toma el asunto de la soberanía digital en serio en España, y que se hace desde una perspectiva progresista.
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM