FOX 5: The EU vs US on Big Tech Regulation
Egle Markeviciute and Yael Ossowski of the Consumer Choice Center join FOX 5 DC Jim Lokay to break down the clash between European regulators and American tech companies.
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“Chat Control betrays Europe’s self-professed image as a protector of human rights” —Free Speech Advocate Yaël Ossowski
Yaël Ossowski is the deputy director at the Consumer Choice Center, a leading advocate of privacy rights and freedom of expression, with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. He spoke with europeanconservative.com’s Rafael Pinto Borges about ‘Chat Control,’ the controversial electronic messaging surveillance law currently under discussion in the European Council. The Council is expected to…
Return of Chat Control: something is rotten in the state of Denmark
The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of CSAM scanning and chat control. Now, they hold the keys to make it a reality. To break encryption, or not to break encryption, that is the question. Across the continent, tech-native Europeans are spinning up new LLMs and AI chatbots on their phones and computers and…
How Donald Trump Can Beat Europe’s Tech Regulations
If there is one bright spot in Trump’s trade threats, it is that the conversation on how to improve the global regulatory space for the average consumer has been recalibrated. President Trump’s tariff-heavy trade agenda is quickly proving unpopular with Americans, which might explain why the administration worked overtime to rebrand tariffs as “liberation” from foreign partners who treated…
EU to lower ESG reporting metrics to boost competitiveness and reduce compliance costs
In a discussion over its Omnibus package in Brussels yesterday, the European Commission announced amendments to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, aiming to reduce the scope of firms forced to comply with the law, and further delaying the reporting requirement by up to two years. The previous version of the CSRD required companies in scope to submit detailed reports…
Europe can’t achieve AI prosperity on the data of others
If you’ve heard anything from the swanky flag-draped corner offices in Brussels, you know the EU wants “in” on the AI arms race. It’s been an obsession of the Commission and related bodies. Now that the AI Act is at least partly in force, and the European AI Office is beefing up its staff to help implement the regulations…
Free speech platforms like ‘X’ will never pass the EU’s DSA test
Today, the European Commission released its initial findings in the investigation into X, formerly known as Twitter, and whether it has violated the Digital Services Act since begin designated a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) on April 25, 2023. That designation came just six months after the platform was purchased and taken private by tech mogul Elon Musk, after X…
Taking a bite out of MiCA, the EU’s comprehensive crypto legislation challenging the nature of decentralisation
To much fanfare, European Union legislators and commissioners last year negotiated the final framework of the bloc’s cryptocurrency regulation, known as the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). On June 30 of this year, Titles III and IV came into force, stipulating the requirements for issuers of “asset-referenced tokens” (commodity basket tokens) and “e-money tokens” (stablecoins). The rest…
EU’s degrowth policies fence Europeans off from benefits of open source AI
Last week, American tech company Meta announced in a blog post it will postpone the launch of its Meta AI product to European users. The company had hoped to offer the same product now available in other countries, integrating a personal assistant into the various suite of Meta apps, but that plan will be on hold until legal matters are…
What the collapse of FTX means for crypto in Europe
Just a few days ago, FTX was the second-largest crypto exchange in the world with a significant user base across the European Union. Now, after revelations of the company’s finances and opaque dealings by CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the company faces a collapse causing contagion across the cryptocurrency economy. This will likely have a large impact…