Laureline Lemoine

Regulate platforms, not children – Commissioner urges caution over social media bans - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 23 February 2026

"Banning children’s access to social media...shifts the responsibility for safety from the platforms that create the environment to the children who navigate it." - Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O'Flaherty

‘Marketplace for predators’: Meta faces jury trial over child exploitation claims New Mexico attorney general accuses Meta of failing to safeguard children against trafficking and sexual abuse

Meta’s second major trial of 2026 over alleged harms to children begins today. The "jury trial in Santa Fe pits the New Mexico attorney general’s office against the social media giant. The state alleges that the company knowingly enabled predators to use Facebook and Instagram to exploit children."

French tech giant Capgemini to sell US subsidiary working for ICE The firm's move comes amid global scrutiny of the methods used by the US immigration enforcement agency.

🙌 Great investigative research by @obsmultinationales.bsky.social has revealed that the French tech company Capgemini is helping ICE to track down people.

👉 multinationales.org/fr/a-chaud/a...

Now Capgemini is selling of its US subsidiary.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Depuis novembre, le groupe français Capgemini 🇫🇷, qui bénéficie de nombreux contrats étatiques, accompagne la police anti-immigration #ICE 🇺🇸pour une mission de «skip-tracing» (localisation des étrangers), rapporte France 2.
Plus de 365 millions $ en jeu, avec part variable en fonction des résultats.👇

Oui, en France aussi, on fait comme ICE aux USA. Ne l'oublions pas.

« L’intelligence artificielle réinvente la domination masculine » TRIBUNE. Les technologies d’IA qui permettent de déshabiller ou de transformer le corps de femmes sans leur consentement contribuent à une nouvelle forme de contrôle, contre laquelle les responsables ...

"Lorsqu’un algorithme permet de déshabiller des femmes, il ne s’agit pas d’une simple dérive, mais du résultat d’un choix délibéré de conception et d’un échec manifeste de conformité et de responsabilité des acteurs concernés" www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...

🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.

Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

Strong statements from those affected: the travel ban is "an authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship". The actions of administration officials are "immoral, unlawful and un-American”. Full support and solidarity ✊

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

Commission should analyse risk assessment report of social media firm X for possible disclosure, says Ombudswoman European Ombudswoman Teresa Anjinho has found maladministration in the European Commission’s refusal to analyse a 2023 risk assessment report drawn up by ...

We have found unreasonable that @ec.europa.eu applied a general presumption of non-disclosure to a risk assessment report drawn up by the social media platform X under the Digital Services Act #DSA.

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Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.

New @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org data highlights tech lobbyists' tightening grip on EU policymaking:

📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years
💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs
🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...

@mathver.bsky.social and I were already thinking about this in 2023, trying to assess how ChatGPT could be designated as a VLOP or VLOSE (see: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). Today, the landscape is bit more complex, but I am looking forward to see what the Commission will eventually decide to do!

My colleagues @laurelinelmn.bsky.social and @mathver.bsky.social shared some thoughts on the DSA's application to OpenAI with TPP! See also their great analysis on the topic here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I got to chime in on the latest hot topic in Brussels, great piece from @ramshajahangir.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social!

If you think this is US-only, it's not.

If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.

If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.

If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.

If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

We'll be at #PrivacyCamp25 tomorrow! Join our colleague @lutecia.bsky.social at 9:55 to discuss all things strategic litigation. Our colleagues @nickbotton.bsky.social and @laurelinelmn.bsky.social will also be around, come chat with us!

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024"

Chris Sidoti spells it out

#EUGeneralCourt dismisses @Zalando’s appeal against the designation of its platform as a very large online platform #DigitalServicesAct 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. His parents are suing the company and its CEO.

A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."

X is being investigated in France for foreign interference because of its algorithms 👀

Très gros travail aussi bien sur le fond que la forme 👏

"This is not a decision of statutory interpretation. It is an ideological declaration by the heads of the Judiciary."

Meta starts AI training with personal data - those who want to object must act quickly (english version) Meta AI will be trained from May with posts, photos and comments from Facebook and Instagram users

Do you want all your Facebook and Instagram photos, posts and data to be used by Meta to train AI?

If not, then *now* is the time to object.

This article explains how.

datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-st...

Transcript: Former Exec Sarah Wynn-Williams Testifies on Facebook’s Courtship of China | TechPolicy.Press The hearing was titled "A Time for Truth: Oversight of Meta’s Foreign Relations and Representations to the United States Congress."

Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams told a US Senate subcommittee on Wednesday that the tech giant undermined its self-proclaimed free speech values and put US national security at risk by vigorously pursuing business opportunities in China. Full transcript @viacristiano.bsky.social:

One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

🚨 Breaking news in our client's High Court claim against Meta: Facebook avoids trial with settlement in landmark privacy case 🚨

French prosecutors open investigation into X's algorithms Elon Musk's social media platform is being investigated by the Paris cybercrime unit, after being reported by an MP.

French prosecutors open investigation into X's algorithms

Landmark High Court ruling on GDPR consent to profiling and targeting in RTM v Bonne Terre - Analysis A new data rights agency

1/ In a groundbreaking ruling, the High Court today found that an online gambling company had unlawfully processed our client’s data. A 🧵 and analysis 👇 on the major implications for data processing in the gambling and AdTech industries.

https://buff.ly/3EiOvQX

Pelicot is seen smiling as she walks past women who are applauding her. They look emotional and one holds a sign up saying Merci Gisele

Photo of the Day, if not the Year.

Solidarity and admiration.

📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.

Collecting the #DSA risk and audit reports here:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Still many lines to fill, curious to see which ones come next

Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk’s X is accused of not declaring user numbers

Lots of articles today about Bluesky potentially violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) after this FT article came out. But Bluesky is legally NOT required to publish user numbers in my opinion. The spokesperson of the European Commission has mixed up things. (1/5) www.ft.com/content/9083...