1/ 🎉Happy #DataProtectionDay 🎉
Data protection is fundamental right & backbone of many other digital rights we rely on every day.
Strong data protection limits surveillance, curbs profiling, exposes discrimination & gives people ways to challenge automated decisions. Without it, words like fairness, equality & accountability quickly lose their meaning, online & offline.
Today & any other day, our message should be clear: this right matters, it's not negotiable & deserves full protection.
2/ 🚧 That’s why the current political moment is worrying. Under the banners of “simplification” and “competitiveness”, deregulation is accelerating.
The #DigitalOmnibus proposal feels more like a bulldozer, heading straight for core data protection safeguards. Rights are reframed as technical hurdles: they easy to reopen, easy to weaken.
Read more about the impacts of this proposal on core rights to data protection & the confidentiality of communications
https://edri.org/our-work/why-the-digital-omnibus-puts-gdpr-and-eprivacy-at-risk/
