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Laureline Lemoine

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Digital rights, law and policy @ AWO, based in Brussels 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
France: wants to ban minors from social media to "protect" them. Also France: beats minors and violently attacks them for protesting teacher shortages and underfunded schools
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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quand une entreprise ambitionne de brûler 518 milliards de dollars en cloud et en calcul (alors qu’elle perd de l’argent), il faut un récit de puissance absolu pour justifier un financement infini.
Anthropic said it planned to spend $518bn on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in the coming years to support its rapid growth.
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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Heureusement qu’il y a @timnitgebru.blacksky.app pour donner l’heure aux doomers de l’IA qui gardent les yeux rivés sur l’horloge de l’apocalypse. Leurs relais médiatiques ensorcelés feraient bien de lire cette interview. www.wired.com/story/one-of...
In my book I write, "Can a bridge decide to collapse?" The whole "Oh no, our models went rogue" thing ... When a bridge collapses, you don't analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire. There are supposed to be tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you've lost the thread.
Meanwhile, what's really existential is AI powering autonomous weapons, killing machines, that are actually being used in warfare. The climate catastrophe is a real thing that could be exacerbated by what these tech companies are building. Bosses are using Al as an excuse to get rid of their pesky workers. This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these. The industry has become a mix of cults, a mix of people who are true believers, just like a preacher who says the end times is coming. The singularity has been coming for decades now.
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🌊 La Digue @la-digue.org · 12/09/2026
Face à la crise inédite que traverse la Cour pénale internationale, son avenir dépend moins de l’affirmation d’un principe de justice universelle que de la volonté de nombreux Etats, qui l’ont souverainement créée, de la défendre, estime le spécialiste du droit international Frédéric Mégret.
lemonde.fr
Frédéric Mégret, juriste : « Si la CPI ne parvient pas à rallier assez de forces, elle disparaîtra dans le chaos de l’époque »
Face à la crise inédite que traverse la Cour pénale internationale, son avenir dépend moins de l’affirmation d’un principe de justice universelle que de la volonté de nombreux Etats, qui l’ont souvera...
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BAD ANSWER
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the DSA on Aug. 31. Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social and Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social on what the obligations require and whether a DMA gatekeeper designation could follow. buff.ly/7lTPiCq
techpolicy.press
What ChatGPT’s DSA Designation Means for OpenAI and the EU
The designation could have far-reaching implications for frontier labs' products and for the EU's own rulebook, write Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 23/07/2026
⚠️ We have fined Google €890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act, by promoting their own services and restricting customer access to alternatives on Google Search and Google Play. More information: link.europa.eu/vrNJTx
A purple graphic featuring yellow stars from the European flag at the top. White and yellow text reads: 'Google fined €890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act'. The European Commission logo is visible in the bottom right corner.
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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
En les interdisant ?
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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#EUGeneralCourt dismisses @Apple’s actions regarding its designation as a gatekeeper in relation to the App Store and iOS #DMA 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Perfect timing to pause and think 🌡️🪭🔥🥵🪾 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
politico.eu
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
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Alexandre Archambault @archambault-avocat.fr · 17/06/2026
Pourquoi l'arrêt #CJUE C-190/24 d'hier est majeur, en démontrant que le droit est parfaitement outillé pour traiter la question de la responsabilité des algorithmes sans qu'une nouvelle loi ne soit nécessaire, faut juste bosser ses dossiers. 1/n^42 🧵
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Nicole Haught Confused by Math Equations
ALT: Nicole Haught Confused by Math Equations
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awo.agency @awo.agency · 17/06/2026
AWO is hosting an expert briefing on 25 June bringing together policymakers, compliance professionals, academics and civil society to address the emerging regulatory framework of social media bans and age verification (1/5)
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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026
💥🚨 here is the full judgement (in French for now): eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
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Claes Holtzmann @claeshs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
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michael veale @michae.lv · 04/06/2026
This case brought by @awo.agency will have to deal with a few big questions: 1. how much platform input in content negates the user-to-user dimension that might usually grant intermediary shielding? 2. will English courts apply the logic of the CJEU in Russmedia or come to a different conclusion?
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awo.agency @awo.agency · 03/06/2026
🚨 We’re proud to represent Jess Asato MP in the claim she filed today in against xAI in the English High Court. Ms Asato MP was one of the many women who were subjected earlier this year to the appalling manipulation of their image on X by Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot. awo.agency/articles/fir...
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First claim in the UK against Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes
Jess Asato MP launches legal claim against Elon Musk's company xAI for AI chatbot Grok creation of sexual deepfakes
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
EU Big Tech law EU General Court: EU Commission wrongly designated Facebook Marketplace as a "gatekeeper" under the Digital Markets Act, but rightly designated Facebook Messenger curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...
Press release summary of the judgment. Full text in the link.
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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026
The European Commission finally published its full first DSA non-compliance decision and fine against X. Following my webinar with @disinfo.eu, I unpack the decision and look at X's pleas in front of the Court 👇👇 awo.agency/articles/x-m...
awo.agency
X Marks the Spot: Unpacking the EU's First DSA Fine
Explore the implications of the European Commission's €120 million fine on X for DSA violations. Discover the legal reasoning and future enforcement trends.
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Nicolas Hervieu @nicolas.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026
Liberté d'expression en ligne : La sanction de l'auteur d'une vidéo devenue virale sur Tiktok ne viole pas la CEDH. Certes, la « critique politique vigoureuse » est protégée. Mais elle était ici très injurieuse. Et la Cour tient compte de l'impact viral (surtout sur les jeunes). => bit.ly/499N6cg
Non-violation de la liberté d’expression dans une affaire concernant une vidéo
virale postée sur TikTok
Dans son arrêt de chambre1, rendu ce jour dans l’affaire Miladze c. Géorgie (requête no 41585/23), la
Cour européenne des droits de l’homme dit, à l’unanimité, qu’il y a eu :
Non-violation de l’article 10 (liberté d’expression) de la Convention européenne des droits de
l’homme.
L’affaire concernait la condamnation administrative de M. Miladze pour une vidéo qu’il avait postée
sur TikTok en 2022, dans laquelle il critiquait la nouvelle politique des transports à Tbilissi et dénonçait
des irrégularités commises par des agents publics. La vidéo était devenue virale.
La Cour a jugé que les juridictions géorgiennes avaient procédé à une mise en balance minutieuse et
modulée en l’espèce, opérant une distinction entre critique politique vigoureuse et dénigrement
personnel hostile – ce dernier n’étant pas protégé par la Convention européenne. Elle a tenu compte
en particulier du langage agressif et vulgaire employé et de l’incidence potentielle, en particulier sur
les jeunes, des insultes personnelles sexuellement explicites proférées sur une plateforme de réseaux
sociaux communément utilisée.
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awo.agency @awo.agency · 01/05/2026
The Algorithm Governance Roundup is out! This month AWO’s @laureline.eurosky.social discusses the European Commission’s first non-compliance decision under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposed a €120 million fine on X.👇 eomail5.com/web-version?...
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Algorithm Governance Roundup #30
Community Spotlight: Laureline Lemoine, AWO | EU age verification app
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 12/03/2026
Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity
CJEU press release:
Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the
gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to
freedom of movement is contrary to EU law
A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman.
She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected.
According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons.
Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice.
In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State.
The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...
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Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Utterly shocking.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Meta’s second major trial of 2026 over alleged harms to children begins today. The "jury trial in Santa Fe pits the New Mexico attorney general’s office against the social media giant. The state alleges that the company knowingly enabled predators to use Facebook and Instagram to exploit children."
theguardian.com
‘Marketplace for predators’: Meta faces jury trial over child exploitation claims
New Mexico attorney general accuses Meta of failing to safeguard children against trafficking and sexual abuse
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Bram Vranken @bramvranken.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🙌 Great investigative research by @obsmultinationales.bsky.social has revealed that the French tech company Capgemini is helping ICE to track down people. 👉 multinationales.org/fr/a-chaud/a... Now Capgemini is selling of its US subsidiary. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
French tech giant Capgemini to sell US subsidiary working for ICE
The firm's move comes amid global scrutiny of the methods used by the US immigration enforcement agency.
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Antton Rouget @anttonrouget.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Depuis novembre, le groupe français Capgemini 🇫🇷, qui bénéficie de nombreux contrats étatiques, accompagne la police anti-immigration #ICE 🇺🇸pour une mission de «skip-tracing» (localisation des étrangers), rapporte France 2. Plus de 365 millions $ en jeu, avec part variable en fonction des résultats.👇
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Guillaume Cingal @guillaumecingal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Oui, en France aussi, on fait comme ICE aux USA. Ne l'oublions pas.
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 14/01/2026
"Lorsqu’un algorithme permet de déshabiller des femmes, il ne s’agit pas d’une simple dérive, mais du résultat d’un choix délibéré de conception et d’un échec manifeste de conformité et de responsabilité des acteurs concernés" www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
lemonde.fr
« L’intelligence artificielle réinvente la domination masculine »
TRIBUNE. Les technologies d’IA qui permettent de déshabiller ou de transformer le corps de femmes sans leur consentement contribuent à une nouvelle forme de contrôle, contre laquelle les responsables ...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 14/01/2026
🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights. Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
corporateeurope.org
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...
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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 24/12/2025
Strong statements from those affected: the travel ban is "an authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship". The actions of administration officials are "immoral, unlawful and un-American”. Full support and solidarity ✊ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
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European Ombudsman @ombudsman.europa.eu · 05/11/2025
We have found unreasonable that @ec.europa.eu applied a general presumption of non-disclosure to a risk assessment report drawn up by the social media platform X under the Digital Services Act #DSA. 🧵 1/3
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Commission should analyse risk assessment report of social media firm X for possible disclosure, says Ombudswoman
European Ombudswoman Teresa Anjinho has found maladministration in the European Commission’s refusal to analyse a 2023 risk assessment report drawn up by ...
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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org data highlights tech lobbyists' tightening grip on EU policymaking: 📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years 💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs 🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
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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.
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Nick Botton @nickbotton.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My colleagues @laurelinelmn.bsky.social and @mathver.bsky.social shared some thoughts on the DSA's application to OpenAI with TPP! See also their great analysis on the topic here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
Assessing the Extent to Which Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Falls Within the Scope of the EU's Digital Services Act: an Initial Analysis
This paper is an initial attempt to assess the extent to which generative AI applications fall within the scope of the Digital Services Act (DSA, both as self-s
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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 29/10/2025
I got to chime in on the latest hot topic in Brussels, great piece from @ramshajahangir.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social!
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 01/10/2025
If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.
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awo.agency @awo.agency · 29/09/2025
We'll be at #PrivacyCamp25 tomorrow! Join our colleague @lutecia.bsky.social at 9:55 to discuss all things strategic litigation. Our colleagues @nickbotton.bsky.social and @laurelinelmn.bsky.social will also be around, come chat with us!
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024" Chris Sidoti spells it out
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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
#EUGeneralCourt dismisses @Zalando’s appeal against the designation of its platform as a very large online platform #DigitalServicesAct 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
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Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne
Court of Justice of the European Union
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."
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Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press
A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. His parents are suing the company and its CEO.
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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 11/07/2025
X is being investigated in France for foreign interference because of its algorithms 👀
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Guillaume Champeau @guillaume.champeau.info · 08/05/2025
Très gros travail aussi bien sur le fond que la forme 👏
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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 22/04/2025
"This is not a decision of statutory interpretation. It is an ideological declaration by the heads of the Judiciary."
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Do you want all your Facebook and Instagram photos, posts and data to be used by Meta to train AI? If not, then *now* is the time to object. This article explains how. datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-st...
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Meta starts AI training with personal data - those who want to object must act quickly (english version)
Meta AI will be trained from May with posts, photos and comments from Facebook and Instagram users
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams told a US Senate subcommittee on Wednesday that the tech giant undermined its self-proclaimed free speech values and put US national security at risk by vigorously pursuing business opportunities in China. Full transcript @viacristiano.bsky.social:
techpolicy.press
Transcript: Former Exec Sarah Wynn-Williams Testifies on Facebook’s Courtship of China | TechPolicy.Press
The hearing was titled "A Time for Truth: Oversight of Meta’s Foreign Relations and Representations to the United States Congress."
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Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025
Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
thetimes.com
One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
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awo.agency @awo.agency · 22/03/2025
🚨 Breaking news in our client's High Court claim against Meta: Facebook avoids trial with settlement in landmark privacy case 🚨
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 07/02/2025
French prosecutors open investigation into X's algorithms
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French prosecutors open investigation into X's algorithms
Elon Musk's social media platform is being investigated by the Paris cybercrime unit, after being reported by an MP.
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awo.agency @awo.agency · 23/01/2025
1/ In a groundbreaking ruling, the High Court today found that an online gambling company had unlawfully processed our client’s data. A 🧵 and analysis 👇 on the major implications for data processing in the gambling and AdTech industries. buff.ly/3EiOvQX
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Landmark High Court ruling on GDPR consent to profiling and targeting in RTM v Bonne Terre - Analysis
A new data rights agency
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