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🌈 #Hungary can celebrate #Pride again — but the laws that criminalise Pride participation and enable biometric #surveillance of protesters remain in force. Their repeal is a priority for democratic restoration.
Read this new op-ed from Liberties' Eva Simon, @npub1w4r…8cxz 's Aljosa Ajanovic Andelic and @npub1gqy…gvf8's Karolina Iwanska in @npub133c…qnss:
https://euobserver.com/224022/budapest-free-to-celebrate-pride-again-but-orban-surveillance-machine-still-in-place/

2026-02-11 12:07:47 UTC

🚨 No more AI Act loopholes!
🚫 Letting AI providers hide the fact that they exempted themselves from the #AIAct’s high-risk requirements is not simplification. This is the weakening of transparency safeguards.
W/ 60 orgs we call on EU to uphold rights safeguards and reject harmful proposals as part of the AI Omnibus:
Read: https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/a-call-to-eu-legislators-protect-transparency-safeguard-in-ai-act/
@npub1w4r…8cxz
@article19
@CenDemTech
@bitsoffreedom
@LaQuadrature
@HomoDigitalisGR
@epicenter_works
@npub1t3g…qqds @npub1yct…n02a

2025-03-21 15:09:20 UTC

🤝 How can CSOs use the EU #AIAct for good?
ECNL's @npub1498…9hcc Iwanska underscores the need to recognise the shortcomings, especially in law enforcement, migration, national security.
Together we can push for stronger safeguards!
Visit #LearningCenterECNL to discover more: https://learningcenter.ecnl.org/learning-package/eu-ai-act
https://eupolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/201/050/723/021/685/original/735c88c246a88364.mp4

2024-11-08 13:37:18 UTC

Under the EU #DigitalServicesAct, big online platforms must assess risks related to their services. With Access Now we developed key criteria for these assessments.
Did platforms listen? At the end of the month, they will have to publish their first risk assessments.
In a joint statement, we detail the level of transparency we expect to see w/ @algorithmwatch @article19
@npub16lj…75qg @das_nettz @npub1waq…j59j @speechfuture @globalwitness @isdglobal
@npub1yct…n02a & others.
➡️ https://ecnl.org/sites/default/files/2024-11/Civil%20society%20statement%20on%20risk%20assessments%20under%20DSA%20ECNL_ACCESSNOW.pdf
https://eupolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/447/598/583/522/447/original/9f402f0cf94b273f.jpg

2024-10-18 10:18:35 UTC

💶Participatory budgeting has the potential to increase trust in institutions, and consider people's needs better when designing how to spend public funds.
What are the necessary safeguards to make participatory budgeting meaningful?
#ParticipationMatters
👇Click to find out in this new case study:
https://ecnl.org/news/participatory-budgeting-tool-build-trust-institutions-and-consider-needs-communities