Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
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Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
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#2> The changes, proposed by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, changes core elements of the GDPR, making it easier for companies to share anonymized and pseudonymized personal datasets. They would allow AI companies to legally use personal data to train AI models, so long as that training complies with other GDPR requirements.
Put together and those two basically undo the entire concept of privacy as it’s trivially easy to target someone from a large enough “anonymous” set (there is no anonymous data, there only exists data that’s not labeled with an ID yet)
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#3This is criminal.
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#4This is criminal.
To make the popup requirement for non critical cookies in GDPR less onerous? Or the change in data operation recording requirements that will kick in at a company size of 750 employees instead of 250?
I assume you mean the AI related stuff?
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#5> One change that’s likely to please almost everyone is a reduction in Europe’s ubiquitous cookie banners and pop-ups. Under the new proposal, some “non-risk” cookies won’t trigger pop-ups at all, and users would be able to control others from central browser controls that apply to websites broadly.
Finally!
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#7> The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure.
This is a very odd framing, because the actual reason from quotes in the article is that the EU is acutely feeling the pain of having no big tech companies, due in part to burdensome privacy regulations.
The pressure isn't really from big tech, it's from feeling poor and setting themselves up as irrelevant consumers of an economy permeated by AI.
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#8I used to live and work in EU, get out of EU before it is too late.
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#9I used to live and work in EU, get out of EU before it is too late.
like UK, you mean?
boy that did really work out well for them!
Re: Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
#10> One change that’s likely to please almost everyone is a reduction in Europe’s ubiquitous cookie banners and pop-ups. Under the new proposal, some “non-risk” cookies won’t trigger pop-ups at all, and users would be able to control others from central browser controls that apply to websites broadly. Finally!
So they finally admit that it was a mistake.
Even EU government websites had annoying giant cookie banners.
Yet, some how the vast majority of HN comments defend the cookie banners saying if you don't do anything "bad" then you don't need the banners.