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Activists demanding stronger privacy protections staged a protest outside the European Commission in Brussels, urging Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to resist pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump and major tech companies.

The demonstration coincides with the EU’s unveiling of its Digital Omnibus package, a plan to streamline AI and privacy rules. Critics argue the reforms could weaken GDPR safeguards and give companies broader access to Europeans’ personal — and even sensitive — data for AI training.
The proposed changes still require approval from EU member states and the European Parliament.


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00:00These billboards, so they're going to be driving around the European district of Brussels all day today.
00:25So I think they're going to be all around the European district and all around central Brussels.
00:32Right now, Europe is at a crossroads.
00:35It can either be pushed by Trump, surrounded by big tech barons,
00:41into changing our legislation to make things easier for them,
00:44or it can uphold the legislation that we have fought for democratically
00:49to keep us all safe, to maintain all of our rights.
00:53And it's really, really important that we do so.
00:56We're calling on Ursula von der Leyen, backed by hundreds of thousands of Europeans,
01:01to do just that, to stop Europe from becoming the US's newest colony,
01:06and to continue to uphold the rules that we have all fought for.
01:10So the rules that are potentially going to be reopened with the digital omnibus,
01:24are rules that are designed to keep all of us safe.
01:27They're to stop the photos of your children being used to train huge AI models.
01:32They're to stop the messages that you're sending to your friends, to your family,
01:37also being used for the same purpose.
01:39The other one we are.
01:41Yeah.
01:42So yeah, maybe we're going to do it.
01:55Special category data, the things that are really personal about you,
01:58like who you vote for, your sexuality, they're keeping all of that safe.
02:03reopening them will like lessen all of those protections and quite frankly
02:08there's no reason to do it it's just a case of pressure from Trump from
02:12pressure from big tech companies asking Europe to make things easier for them and
02:17Europeans are saying no
02:33you
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