At a time when media plurality and professional journalism face sustained economic and technological pressure, including intense competition from dominant platforms that capture most digital advertising growth and increasingly substitute publisher content with AI-generated answers, the Digital Omnibus proposal reveals a striking inconsistency at the heart of EU digital policy. It fails to create a framework that genuinely supports the sustainability of European publishers.  

EPC has been part of a broad coalition of European associations, including technology, telecommunications, automotive, finance, insurance, and media that has sent a joint letter to Ms. Anu Talus, Chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). This initiative follows the recent CJEU ruling (C-413/23 EDPS v. SRB), which clarified that, under the right safeguards, pseudonymised data can be considered anonymous in certain contexts . Why is this important for our industry? Th

The European Commission’s decision to withdraw the long-delayed ePrivacy Regulation, announced today in its new Work Programme.

Today is a day to think about EU privacy regulation and consider the challenges that current implementation poses to publishers

Industry coalition calls for the reaffirmation of the GDPR’s risk-based approach

Today, the European Publishers Council sent further considerations to the EDPB prior to their work on broader guidelines on ‘Consent or...