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📣 New research together with @lobbycontrol reveals Big Tech's lobby campaign to kill data protection in Europe.
As part of its deregulation agenda, the EU wants hand over our personal data to AI companies without any safeguards.

✊ But the EU Parliament can still stop this.

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Corporate Europe Observatory The Big Tech campaign to kill data protection in Europe | Corporate Europe Observatory Via Freedom of Information requests we reveal how Big Tech's deregulation push is shaping the EU's Digital Omnibus. The result could be very good news for the tech oligarchs, and not just a bad news for our data privacy, but also a dramatic defeat for European digital sovereignty.

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The Digital Omnibus would allow companies to collect people’s personal data to train and operate AI systems without consent.

🛑 This would effectively remove data protection safeguards in AI - including for highly problematic systems such as facial recognition, deepfake “nudes” and misinformation.

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🇩🇪 In Germany, Big Tech companies held 103 meetings with high-level government officials since Friedrich Merz took office - an average of 1.5 meetings per week.

Digital Minister Kirsten Wildberger, who leads Germany’s work on the Digital Omnibus, held 18 meetings with large technology firms.

103 lobbying encounters, 11 tech companies, since May 2025 with the German federal government Number of meetings that Big Tech companies have had with the German government. Google had the most meetings with 28, followed by Microsoft (18), Amazon (16), OpenAI (11), Apple (8), and Meta (7).

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🇮🇪 Big Tech companies tried to shape the priorities of the Irish presidency to push for digital deregulation.


Meta met 41 lawmakers on the Digital Omnibus, while Google met 30.

Lobby encounters with Irish lawmakers on the Digital Omnibus, with a peak in the first half of the year.

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🇪🇺 In the European Parliament, CEO and LobbyControl identified 655 lobby meetings on the Digital Omnibus.

An average of three meetings with MEPs every working day since the Commission published its proposal in November 2025.

🕴️ Business interests accounted for 83% of those meetings.

Share of meetings between lobbyists and MEPs. 81 percent of meetings were with companies or trade associations. Only 10 percent of meetings was with civil society.

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