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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52834195

https://archive.is/je5sj

“If adopted, these amendments would not simplify compliance but hollow out the GDPR’s and ePrivacy’s core guarantees: purpose limitation, accountability, and independent oversight,” Itxaso Dominguez de Olazabal, from the European Digital Rights group, told EUobserver.

The draft includes adjustments to what is considered “personal data,” a key component of the GDPR and protected by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 141 points 1 week ago

I guess Daddy Trump gets his wish afterall. Spineless cowards ...

[–] nope@jlai.lu 122 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well shit, do we EU citizens have any say in this ?

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 59 points 1 week ago

Contact your local MEP. Ask your local MP or Deputy or whatever you call them to push the relevant minister to oppose it. It's not great, but you do have a say.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I believe the EU Parliament has to approve this so they can block it, and that's elected by Proportional Vote and we all have MEPs there who, unlike national parliamentarians in countries without Proportional Vote (which are most of them) have to worry more about the public opinion in their nation turning against them.

So if this shit ever makes its way to the EU Parliament (were the EU Commission will try to make it pass quietly), contact your country's MEPs and show you're well aware of it.

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Have we ever?

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Looks like somebody has been promised by one or more large Tech firms a very highly paid non-executive board membership, millionaire speech circuit engagement or gold plated "consulting" gig when their time in the Commission is over...

Mind you, by now that kind of exchange of "favours" is tradition for the members of the EU Commission.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Humanity really can't progress anywhere with capitalism running so rampant. Every corpo needs to go, or it will be like trying to sail against the wind.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

True.

That is however a pretty hard and time consuming change, so to me it makes sense that in the meanwhile we take steps to reduce the harm caused by the system still in place, not least by cracking down hard on Corruption and Conflicts Of Interest and closing the legal loopholes that allow certain politicians to stay within the Law whilst purposefully using today the power they have been delegated to do favors for others who have promised them monetary payback for it tomorrow.

If you're drowning now you don't put all your hopes on the ship that might be coming but isn't even visible yet.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago

Humanity is progressing all the time one way or another. Also corporation is a word with far wider meaning than often used, a university is a corporation, a security service is a corporation, a military is a corporation with plenty of subcorporations with their own esprit de corps, and even a network of friends playing DND is a corporation, not even talking about religious sects.

And all these corporations function, in regards to cronyism and and quid-pro-quo and silent erosion of mechanisms aimed at transparency and resilience, in absolutely the same way.

So - even in this interpretation there were people agreeing with you, which are now called "not proper communism", who have ruined all the corporations they could find, have built their own one corporation aimed at first taking power and then fixing the world, it has diverged in a few directions, fostering under their umbrella a few other corporations along the way, and in the end result the territories which those people controlled are still pretty corporate. Except with very peculiar backbones of their organized crime, with traits of a religious sect, which can be traced back to those revolutionaries. There are even a few secret services which have been abolished or merged into other secret services, but in fact still function and their members elect their leaders. It's scary, ironic, even beautiful, and honestly I respect those people who can keep a tradition even if membership in their structure has nothing to do with money and power anymore.

But you should notice how when trying to build a social mechanism to impose your will upon the world, like, for example, to kill all corporations, you are building a corporation.

I've used more words than needed to say this.

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[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Legally there are no Corrupt EU Commissioners. To be deemed Corrupt there would have to be actual evidence of Corruption (such as recordings of meetings were they explicitly promised to use their power in a certain way, in exchange for some form of payment, which normally only the Police has powers to obtain), them being subsequently charged and a Court Of Law convicting them for the crime of Corruption.

None of them was ever just investigated for Corruption, much less convicted so pointing fingers at any one of the them explicitly and saying that they're Corrupt would be Libel, which in my country (which by the way, is pretty Corrupt, with actual ex-government members convicted of Corruption) is an actual Crime prosecuted by the local Prosecution Office, not merely a civil lawsuit for damages.

So if I was to name names, I would be putting my head of the block for the Crime of Libel. Obviously I'm not going to do that.

What there is are various coincidences of EU Commissioners which acted in very positive ways towards certain industries and then after leaving the Commission went to work for those Industries making a lot of money, even thought they had no background in them (never before had worked in said Industries, no Educational training for said Industries).

Since the police never investigates it, all there are are such coincidences of commissioners ending up in gold plated gigs in the industries they helped whilst they were commissioners.

I'm not going to put my head of the nose for you by naming names (I'm not a Legal expert so don't want to risk committing the Crime of Libel by doing so). I suggest you start by looking into were the EU commissioners during the 2008 Crash (during which the commission was very pro-Finance) ended up working afterwards.

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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The commission pitched the Digital Omnibus as simplifying and streamlining digital regulations to relieve the regulatory burden for digital services and AI systems, with a specific focus on helping small-to medium-sized businesses in Europe; however, the draft proposal goes further than expected.

won’t somebody think of the poor “AI” companies? 😢

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Helping small to medium-sized businesses in Europe

Yyeeaa as if these small companies are the ones that yelled in favor of this. The lady at my local grocery shop always told me how it would be easier for her to do her job if this change in GDPR made it through...

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

My grandpappy started this here AI company with a handful of GPUs he whittled himself, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let big gobmint regulations cost us the family business!

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago

Make those motherfuckers' phone lines burn!

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

Every goddamn day there's some new BS showing up.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fascists in council. Only one way to deal with those...

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

I can think of a few. Always the same outcome tho.

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[–] Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 15 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Omfg, is there anything that we can do?

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

I want to know who is behind these changes being proposed. This smells of corruption.

[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.world 11 points 1 week ago

Such a shame. 😕

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Contacted 3 MEPs that seem sensible enough to oppose the suggestion.

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[–] Freigeist@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Just when it became technically feasible to autodecline in all kinds of cookie banners with AI enabled browsers/browser plug-ins...

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