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Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles (noyb.eu)

submitted 4 weeks ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39190924

Despite heavy criticism from civil society and large parts of the EU Parliament, the EU Commission has now published its proposal for the “Digital Omnibus”. Contrary to the Commission's official press release, these changes are not “maintaining the highest level of personal data protection”, but massively lower protections for Europeans. While having basically no real benefit for average European small and medium businesses, the proposed changes are a gift to US big tech as they open up many new loopholes for their law departments to exploit. Schrems: “This is the biggest attack on European’s digital rights in years. When the Commission states that it ‘maintains the highest standards’, it clearly is incorrect. It proposes to undermine these standards.”

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