Flash News: Radical centrists and right-wingers want the European Union to become just another plutocrat/kleptocrat regime like the USA where big tech companies can plunder your privacy and personal data while national states deploy oppressive mass surveillance regimes. To hell with civil liberties, social rights, and quality of life for all. I don't have any kind of tolerance for that type of demagogic speech!!
"The Commission’s long-anticipated digital omnibus is being sold as a package that will reduce regulatory burdens and simplify Europe’s approach to overseeing the digital economy. In reality, it will likely wholly walk back the bloc’s ability to oversee key digital battlegrounds.
“What is described as a ‘simplification package’ to technically streamline digital regulation will in fact fracture people’s rights and freedoms, and leave the door open for AI development with significantly lower safeguards,” said the Ada Lovelace Institute.
Among some of the most troubling risks arising from the omnibus are a move to use people’s data to train AI on the basis of a “legitimate interest” — as defined by the company — rather than clear consent. It also moves to weaken core privacy protections and delays key safety measures for high risk and speculative AI technology until 2027.
As troubling as these examples are, there is also a significant risk the omnibus exposes children to additional risk and harms in digital life. A total of 15 civil society networks, reported in POLITICO, wrote to the Commission warning that lifting current protections contained within the GDPR and AI Act would result in an “unacceptable betrayal of the EU’s commitment to children, parents, and its own values.”"
https://thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/eu-digital-omnibus-sacrifices-fundamental
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