New: TikTok is facing legal action over union-busting measures against key safety workers in London: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/12/19/p...

🗞️ News: @foxglovelegal.bsky.social has launched a new case against TikTok in the UK for union busting. Read more in Sky's coverage here: news.sky.com/story/tiktok... We proud to support TikTok workers, Julio & others, alongside @leigh-day.bsky.social and @utaw.tech union. Details below!

EC has formally opened an investigation into Google for using publishers’ content without meaningful consent or compensation for its AI Overviews feature. Big win for civil society orgs like @foxglovelegal.bsky.social who’ve been asking for this. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Good news: earlier this year, we called on the European Commission to act over Google's theft of independent journalists' work to fuel 'AI Overviews'. Today they announced that they've opened an investigation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Rosa Curling, co-executive director of Foxglove - which had called on the Commission in June to tackle the impact of AI Overviews - said "clear & present" dangers to journalism and democracy remain. "We need an urgent opt out for news publishers to stop Google from stealing their reporting today."'

We @foxglovelegal.bsky.social were delighted the European Commission yesterday announced it will investigate Google AI Overviews in response to our complaint. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"MPs on the select committee said the UK needed to develop greater “sovereign” technology capacity, award more contracts to smaller, local providers, and be less reliant on deals that resulted in government departments becoming locked into services with US firms." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"@labourlewis.bsky.social, who campaigned against Palantir’s work with the NHS, told me: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

I'm in Kuala Lumpur this week at #GIJC2025 and the CTRL+J International meeting talking about Foxglove's work challenging AI overviews and Google's theft of news around the world. Let me know if you're in town and fancy a coffee.

love this for you ICC www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

jobs.theguardian.com/job/9893829/... Recruitment for a head of ops position at @foxglovelegal.bsky.social closes in a week! Please share widely and apply if of interest.

@foxglovelegal.bsky.social supporters in action 👇 objecting to Google's NEW Thurrock data centre. 💪 Join them www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th... Google's data centre will emit half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to 500 short-haul flights a week.

We are hiring a head of operations at Foxglove! All the details are below - please share with anyone brilliant / that might be interested. jobs.theguardian.com/job/9893829/...

Thank you for showing us exactly why our cloud infrastructure shouldn't be in the hands of just three companies today AWS. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Great write up of our report in Computer Weekly. We'll continue to urge gov to properly scrutinise data centre developers’ environmental claims. @foxglovelegal.bsky.social @globalactionplan.bsky.social www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322... (full report here www.foxglove.org.uk/wp-content/u...)

Read the report in full here www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/10/05/r...

Our research out today and covered in the Observer 👇 shows emissions from just 10 of the hundreds of UK data centres in the works could wipe out carbon emissions saved by switching to electric cars in 2025! @globalactionplan.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/busines...

www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen... We @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and @globalactionplan.bsky.social are just £500 away from our fundraising target. Please share and donate if you can to help us get there!

Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social was at the UK's Labour party conference this week to warn about the environmental costs of Big Tech's data centres:

Kicking off our second panel of the day #Lab25, in partnership with @globalactionplan.bsky.social, with a discussion about whether our energy and water systems are ready for the AI Data Centre Boom.

There is a real knowledge gap around the energy and water consumption of data centres, says Martha Dark from @foxglovelegal.bsky.social, and there need to be better mechanisms for holding developers to their commitments - how do we build this infrastructure without letting climate targets slip?

- @marthadark.bsky.social, Foxglove Legal - @shanikamahendr1.bsky.social, Milton Keynes Councillor - @sophiaadamsbhatti.bsky.social, AI Expert (Chair) 🔗 Event Page: luma.com/5v40y8tj

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Microsoft CEO claimed "investing in data centres was 'effectively' also investing in modernising the power grid but did not say that money would be shared directly with the UK's power supplier" In short: he will pile more demand onto the grid but won't pay for it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh. Wow. A fine of [*checks notes*] about 1% of Google's annual turnover as punishment for [*checks further notes*] monopolising critical infrastructure in ways that aggressively defunds democracy. The EC's spinelessness is a revolution in materials science. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

Google's monopoly power rips off consumers, pollutes our information environment, and destroys the news media. Today's €2.95 billion fine is a start, but won't touch Google's toxic ad-tech monopoly. The EU @ec.europa.eu must hold firm and now break up Google. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Palantir is the last company that should be allowed anywhere near children’s services. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Listen to Oliver Hayes, our Head of Policy and Campaigns, and Martha Dark of @foxglovelegal.bsky.social talk on @themaybe.org podcast about the legal challenge we launched against the government’s decision to force construction of a data centre in Buckinghamshire. www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...

NEWS! Foxglove (@foxglovelegal.bsky.social) and Global Action Plan (@globalactionplan.bsky.social) are suing to stop the UK govt's YOLO plans for data centers. Want a 15min brief on the case from @marthadark.bsky.social and @olliehayes.bsky.social? Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...

⚠️ We filed a complaint against the use of two algorithms in UK immigration enforcement operations. privacyinternational.org/long-read/5639/pi-rings-alarm-bell-and-alerts-ico-about-use-algorithms-home-office-and-their-impact

"The deputy prime minister's lack of meaningful scrutiny of this application sends a worrying signal to communities across the country that more and bigger data centres are inevitable." - Oliver Hayes, Global Action Plan, quoted in BBC coverage today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A legal challenge has been launched against a decision to force through construction of a hyperscale data centre in the Buckinghamshire Green Belt. Tech justice non-profit Foxglove and environmental charity Global Action Plan are represented by Rowan Smith. www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...

As Rosa says re our data centre challenge "Local people and businesses in Buckinghamshire will soon be competing with a power guzzling-behemoth to keep the lights on, which as we've seen in the states, usually means sky-high prices." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Together with Foxglove, we’re launching a legal challenge against the government’s decision to force construction of a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire. Read the coverage in today's Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... @theguardian.com

If you think our environment and our energy and water supplies are more important than the demands of Tech Billionaires, you can support our work to stop the UK Government forcing through environmentally destructive data centres here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...

The Government has overturned local concerns in order to force through a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire. They didn’t even bother to undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment before doing so. We’re taking legal action against this decision. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/08/21/n...

NEW: we've @foxglovelegal.bsky.social filed a legal case challenging plans for a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire with our friends @globalactionplan.bsky.social. Gov has failed to properly assess environmental impact & huge energy and water consumption. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Important story. Comment from Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social: “It's appalling that this guidance was not only approved, but remained unchanged until a news organisation started asking questions. This is yet more evidence that Meta can't be trusted when it comes to the wellbeing of its users."

💪 All power to our content moderator friends at TikTok in Germany who are on strike after TikTok tried to replace them with AI and outsource their jobs. @social.verdi.de www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

inews.co.uk/news/home-of... @tmsqrll.bsky.social is right re Home Office GenAI in asylum: "decisions can be [..] life or death. You probably wouldn’t want to trust your life to a chatbot making such serious errors that its work has to be thrown out nearly 10% of the time" @foxglovelegal.bsky.social

www.bbc.com/news/article... Catch @foxglovelegal.bsky.social's Rosa Curling @ 6pm on BBC news tonight on Google's GenAI and its terrifying impact on the news industry.

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... NEW: the proposals for the UK's largest data centre are deeply worrying - sewage pollution and not enough water to supply it. We've made legal submissions opposing the plans - more here. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/28/w...

SCOOP: Evidence growing of “devastating impact” for publishers from "AI summaries". Two studies show big falls in clickthrough - one suggesting falls of up to 80%. Google says the studies are flawed, but publishers say the company refuses to provide solid data. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Our research shows the devastating impact of Google's GenAI summaries on news. As Rosa says it'd be "bad enough if Google were simply stealing journalists’ work and passing it off as their own [...] they are using this work to fuel their own tools and profits.”

New: research commissioned by @foxglovelegal.bsky.social shows the “devastating impact that Google’s ‘AI overviews’ are already having on the UK’s independent news industry” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Gov is partnering with OpenAI to use AI in the public sector and we know next to nothing about the deal. We can all see what OpenAI gets - enormous commercial value in helping train the next version of ChatGPT - but what's the benefit to the public? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Peter Kyle seems bizarrely determined to put the big tech fox in charge of the henhouse when it comes to UK sovereignty" - Foxglove director @marthadark.bsky.social on the UK Govt's new deal with OpenAI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Spy tech Palantir did the same at the start of the pandemic - they offered the NHS services for £1. Fast forward the contract is worth £480 mill. Google clearly hopes to cash in next. As the saying goes: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.

More detail here www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/04/l...

NEW: we @foxglovelegal.bsky.social have lodged complaints with the UK and EU competition authorities challenging an existential threat to independent news: Google's AI Overviews. More here 👇 www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...