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🚧 Europe faces a defining choice: uphold our digital laws & defend European digital self-determination, or cave to pressure from Trump, Big Tech and corporate lobbies.

🪧 Yesterday in Brussels, with @PeopleVsBigTech, we launched mobile billboards urging the @EUCommissionEuropean Commission to stand up for its citizens & democracy.

The “Digital Omnibus” would reopen and weaken the GDPR, ePrivacy & the AI Act, lowering safeguards & expanding surveillance by both states & corporations
➡️ edri.org/our-work/commissions-

Billboard in front of the European Commission's building. The banner says: "Ursula! Fight for Europe, not for them!", referring to Trump and Big Tech.
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There are also signs that Europe 𝗰𝗮𝗻 stand firm.

Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure may soon be brought under the scope of the . 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 ⤵️

apnews.com/article/amazon-micr

An AWS, Amazon Web Services, logo is displayed at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

EU to assess whether Amazon and Microsoft cloud businesses need extra scrutiny

The European Union is considering stricter scrutiny for Amazon and Microsoft's cloud businesses. The EU's executive Commission is assessing whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be classified as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act.

apnews.com · AP News

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