Article Sovereignty for citizens, not just states: Ensuring European citizens have choice and control of their digital footprint, access and data Katarzyna Szymielewicz, President of Panoptykon Foundation, participated in Funders’ briefing on Digital sovereignty 08.01.2026 Text
other Open Letter: The European Commission and Member States must keep AI Act national implementation on track 23.09.2025
other Time to Build a Dynamic, Resilient, and Sovereign Technology Ecosystem in Europe. Joint Statement to the EU Presidency As Europe’s digital leaders gather in Gdańsk for the 2025 EU Digital Summit, civil society organisations across the continent welcome the opportunity for Europe to lay the foundations of a digital ecosystem that is open, sovereign, resilient, and contributes to Europe’s prospe 18.06.2025
other #Paris AI Action Summit_Open Call_Global AI governance: Taking action with civil society Ahead of the Paris AI Action Summit, civil society actors, academics and experts from over the world call for a more meaningful inclusion in global AI governance efforts. 06.02.2025
other Human rights and justice must be at the heart of the upcoming Commission guidelines on the AI Act implementation On 11 December 2024, the European Commission’s consultation on its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act guidelines closed. 16.01.2025
other Complaint against the use of personal data for undefined forms of machine learning or artificial intelligence models by Twitter Recently, Twitter International (now re-branded as “X”) began unlawfully using the personal data of more than 60 million users in the EU/EEA to train its AI technologies (like “Grok”) without their consent. 12.08.2024
Article One Act to Rule Them All We enter the final stage of the negotiations of the AI Act – the first comprehensive law regulating the development and implementation of artificial intelligence. The lack of transparency of the trilogue and intense corporate are reasons to worry. But fortunately – thanks to the efforts of civil society – there are also reasons for optimism. Will the AI Act eventually promote and protect fundamental rights and freedoms? 23.08.2023 Text
Article AI Act: we call on MEPs to put our fundamental rights first As the European Parliament gets ready to vote on the AI Act, we call on MEPs to put our fundamental rights first and protect the people affected by AI systems. 28.04.2023 Text
