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Thursday, Oct 29, 2026

Technology Giants Mount Unprecedented Lobbying Campaign to Weaken European Union Data Privacy Reforms

Multinational technology companies are executing a massive lobbying blitz in Brussels, Berlin, and Dublin to influence the drafting of the new Digital Omnibus legislation. Watchdog groups report that Big Tech representatives have secured over eighty percent of all parliamentary meetings on the subject, seeking to systematically dismantle restrictions that prevent the scraping of citizen data.
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