What’s behind the EU’s digitalisation push? Surveillance, control and exclusion | EDRi

Geplaatst op 26 juni 2026 door Ellen Timmer

European Digital Rights (EDRi) published the article What’s behind the EU’s digitalisation push? with the following introduction:

The EU institutions have been engaged in a broad and wholesale digitalisation project but underneath the rhetoric of efficiency, modernisation, and citizen empowerment lies a more troubling reality. It is not a mere technical upgrade of public services, but a political choice, long in the making, to forego care and rights of individuals in favour of normalising surveillance, control and exclusion of the most marginalised. This blog explores the various facets of the EU’s digital welfare state push, and what it means for the relationship between people and the state.

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1 Response to What’s behind the EU’s digitalisation push? Surveillance, control and exclusion | EDRi

  1. Ellen Timmer's avatar Ellen Timmer schreef:
    6 november 2026 om 12:48

    EDRi publication of 4 November 2026:

    EU governments call it ‘simplification,’ but their Data Omnibus deal considerably weakens our rights
    EU governments have agreed on their position on the Digital Omnibus, retaining changes that threaten fundamental rights to privacy and data protection. With negotiations moving to the European Parliament, MEPs must reject the proposed weakening of GDPR safeguards for AI and pseudonymised data, protect individual rights, and defend ePrivacy against new tracking exemptions. Genuine simplification should make our rights easier to exercise and enforce, not give companies more freedom to exploit our data.

    Attached is a table (pdf) that shows the differences.

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