People vs Big Tech (PVBT NEWCO LTD)
Budget
Not declared
EP Access
1
accredited persons
Staff
6
2.55 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
People vs Big Tech is an open movement of civil society organisations and concerned citizens working together to challenge the power and abuses of Big Tech, with a focus on the major social media companies. Our priority is to ensure today’s tech titans and their legions of lobbyists are not allowed to be the dominant influence on Europe’s technology regulations. The movement’s current major focus is to distil key legislative priorities in European regulation, highlight moments for targeted action, and amplify opportunities anywhere for people-powered mobilisation in the fight to increase public and political support for Big Tech accountability.
EU Legislative Interests
- 2025/2007(INI) European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure - Proposal for a potential Digital Fairness Act - Regulation on a Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Services Act); - Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act); - Regulation establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market (European Media Freedom Act) - Report on Addictive design of online services and consumer protection in the EU single market - Guidelines for providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs on the mitigation of systemic risks for electoral processes
Communication Activities
Research, briefings, policy papers, public polls, open letters, public stunts, and participation in events and debates. Details of all communication activities can be found here: https://peoplevsbig.tech/news Examples; 1. Briefing on risk mitigation for VLOPs under the Digital Services Act: Safe by Default: Moving away from engagement-based rankings towards safe, rights-respecting, and human centric recommender systems [https://panoptykon.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/Panoptykon_ICCL_PvsBT_Fixing-recommender-systems_Aug%202023.pdf] 2. Several People vs Big Tech members spoke at the following Parliament event: PROTECTING THE 2024 ELECTIONS: FROM ALARM TO ACTION: HOW THE DSA CAN PROTECT DEMOCRACY BY MEANINGFULLY ADDRESSING THE VIRALITY OF DISINFORMATION AND HATE SPEECH [https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/protecting-the-2024-elections-from-alarm-to-action] 3. Open Letter: Civil Society Organisations Call on EU Parliament to Close Disinformation Loophole [in the European Media Freedom Act] [https://peoplevsbig.tech/civil-society-calls-on-eu-parliament-to-close-disinformation-loophole] 4. Joint-Civil Society Response on the Commission’s Guidelines for Providers of Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines on the Mitigation of Systemic Risks for Electoral Processes [https://peoplevsbig.tech/press-civil-society-groups-call-for-safe-and-quality-driven-recommender-systems-to-safeguard-the-2024] 5. We were a partner in the Tech and Society Summit, led by EDRi. https://edri.org/take-action/events/coming-soon-a-civil-society-summit-on-tech-society-and-the-environment/
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Coded by Conduct Center for Democracy and Technology DSA Civil Society Coordination Group
Organisation Members
Member organisations can be found here: https://peoplevsbig.tech/the-movement/#:~:text=Who%20are%20we,of%20Big%20Tech.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.