Why exactly can I still not uninstall #Microsoft effing #Edge on a fully patched #Windows11 in the EU?
#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust #DigitalRights #SoftwareFreedom #DMA
There are also signs that Europe 𝗰𝗮𝗻 stand firm.
Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure may soon be brought under the scope of the #DMA. The Commission is preparing a investigation to assess whether these cloud giants should face new obligations after years of escaping DMA oversight due to technical loopholes
📣 This is the kind of strong enforcement we need to see. Europe does not need fewer rules, it needs to enforce the ones it already has ⤵️
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-microsoft-eu-digital-regulation-01fa0a63c9eb2e1bad4b2e493852bbf7
Robert Riemann 🇪🇺
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Happy Digital Omnibus Day!
#GDPR #DMA #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalOmnibus
Credit to (inter alia) @edri & the @PeopleVsBigTech network we are part of!
Happy Digital Omnibus Day!
#GDPR #DMA #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalOmnibus
Credit to (inter alia) @edri & the @PeopleVsBigTech network we are part of!
Anna
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Good morning, everyone. Oh, look: Today, the @EUCommission launches their plans to gravely undermine our fundamental rights because tech lobbyists asked them to.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/
#MastoDaoine #EU #DigitalLaw #InfoSphere #Rights #AI #GDPR #DSA #DMA #DataAct
Good morning, everyone. Oh, look: Today, the @EUCommission launches their plans to gravely undermine our fundamental rights because tech lobbyists asked them to.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/
#MastoDaoine #EU #DigitalLaw #InfoSphere #Rights #AI #GDPR #DSA #DMA #DataAct
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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To finish, we have #Macron. #Sovereignty? Nah, what he wants is:
* less regulation
* a "smaller", "risk-based" #GDPR
* postpone 1 year the #AIAct obligations for big tech
With a straight face, he recommends these anti-sovereingty measures as things that somehow will be good for our tech sovereignty....
At least he puts emphasis on enforcing #DMA, and make sure that hyperscalers comply with it.
He also defends EU-first public procurement, but his examples are SAP and Mistral (and their non-interoperable solutions)...
Finally, he things it is important to speed up AI adoption, going as far as saying that next year instead of a digital sovereignty summit we'll have an AI summit...
No, not finally! To finish, he wants to "protect the children"! We all know where that one leads...
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The afternoon didn't start better: we got a talk about the EUDI, with the implied idea that an "European ID" is automatically an example of digital sovereignty, when in fact what is being implemented isn't.
I could go further into it, but instead I'll leave here a link to the comment I was impelled to write on the EUDI project after the presentation:
The #EUDI panel was followed by Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs of Denmark. The tldr; of her keynote - which had two points of note: 1) "I support AI gigafactories" (because all that is shiny and new is something we should invest in), and "innovation is sovereignty" which is her way of saying that she wants to use the sovereignty topic not to talk about sovereignty but as an excuse to promote "innovation" - in that ideology brand that supports the idea that in order to innovate more we need to simplify and de-regulate...
To finish, we have #Macron. #Sovereignty? Nah, what he wants is:
* less regulation
* a "smaller", "risk-based" #GDPR
* postpone 1 year the #AIAct obligations for big tech
With a straight face, he recommends these anti-sovereingty measures as things that somehow will be good for our tech sovereignty....
At least he puts emphasis on enforcing #DMA, and make sure that hyperscalers comply with it.
He also defends EU-first public procurement, but his examples are SAP and Mistral (and their non-interoperable solutions)...
Finally, he things it is important to speed up AI adoption, going as far as saying that next year instead of a digital sovereignty summit we'll have an AI summit...
No, not finally! To finish, he wants to "protect the children"! We all know where that one leads...
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In general, Corinne Cath, was awesome (as always) Someone finally calling this warfare out, really talking about why this matters.
"We cannot be turned off by accident, or as is increasingly likely in 2025, by intent."
Now Emmanuel Sardet, President of Cigref and Vice-CIO, Crédit Agricole talks good sense, yay! The last thing we as a bank need is agentic AI forced won our throats. The EU's lead on B2B AI is super, super important.
Fairer Markets in Support of #DigitalSovereignty is the new panel he's on. The panels are getting better and better, I guess because Macron & Merz are closing the day!
They are talking about how important the #DMA is, but they could equally say #GDPR https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7357055079889207299/
This is very welcome.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2717
