European Digital Rights, Ada Lovelace Institute, ARTICLE19, BEUC, CDT Europe, Check My Ads, Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties), Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Digitale Gesellschaft, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Greenpeace, People vs Big Tech, petites singularites, and Stichting Data Bescherming Nederland (SDBN)
Where do human rights, public interest, economics, and data protection converge? What could a truly people-centered digital future for the EU look like? The “Fight for Us, Not for Them” Summit, held on 23 June 2026 and organized by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) and eleven other civil society groups, aimed to dissect these crucial questions, presenting a public interest vision for EU tech policy.
Our Executive Director, Anita Gurumurthy, spoke at the session titled ‘Reality check: Europe’s tech policy as its strength’. This panel will interrogate the potential consequences of rolling back the EU's tech policy framework and why people, communities, and businesses rely on strong, consistent, fair rules. Anita's contributions centered on the global impact of European deregulatory trends before an audience of European lawmakers and journalists.
Other speakers for the session included Dr. Corinne Cath, Interim Director of Digital, ARTICLE 19, and researcher at Cambridge University; Aurélien Maehl, Lead, Public Policy Manager, DuckDuckGo; and Thomas Le Bonniec, Sociologist, researcher, Apple whistleblower. The session was moderated by Iverna McGowan, Tech & Human Rights Advisor at UN Human Rights.
This event was co-hosted by Ada Lovelace Institute, ARTICLE19, BEUC, CDT Europe, Check My Ads, Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties), Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Digitale Gesellschaft, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Greenpeace, People vs Big Tech, petites singularites, and Stichting Data Bescherming Nederland (SDBN).