The battle for data sovereignty is not just about who controls our information – it's about who controls our future. It's time we recognised the profound importance of this struggle and took our place on the front lines.

This piece examines the urgent need for a harmonised approach to balancing the rights to freedom of expression and information with the right to personal data protection under the EU legal system.

In the swiftly evolving digital landscape, the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is heralding unprecedented changes in how we interact, work, and innovate. However, this technological renaissance brings to the fore a critical yet often overlooked aspect: widening the existing digital divide.

How will generative AI affect elections? On the evening of the European Parliament elections, the alarms are sounding.

We must question the assumption that the success of digital economy and policy is best assessed by counting how many digital multinationals a region has managed to give birth to.

European digital and internet policies must consider digital policy and infrastructure in the Middle East, particularly in the Gulf region, expanding the geographical and regulatory frontiers of the European digital space discussions.

This op-ed problematizes performance metrics in the field of synthetic data — including such measures as synthetic data utility, quality, and fairness — and argues that these are more than neutral descriptions.

In light of the need for resilient and sovereign digital infrastructure for public institutions during times of multiple crises, Free/Libre Open-Source Software (FLOSS) offers a way for institutions to lessen their dependence on platform economies.

From negative impacts on teenagers’ mental health to the abuse of data collection for political microtargeting and potentially abetting genocide against the Rohingya: in the past decade, online platforms like In