The EU hopes changes will make doing business easier, but campaigners fear citizens’ rights are under threat. What can we expect from the EU’s proposed new laws on GDPR and AI?

What is being presented as a ‘technical streamlining’ of EU digital laws is, in reality, an attempt to covertly dismantle Europe’s strongest protections against digital threats," an open letter read.

“I can confirm 100 percent that the objective… is not to lower the high privacy standards we have for our citizens,” said Thomas Regnier, EU spokesman for digital affairs.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    9 hours ago

    Wouldn’t it make business even more easy if the capitalists could enslave all of us to work for free for them?

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      5 hours ago

      Just wait a bit, we’ll get there.

      Citizen scoring, dissident slave labour, dodging government drones on a sunny afternoon…

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    9 hours ago

    If you’re reading this from outside the US, I’d suggest lest time mocking us and more time studying the fisher price version of warning signs that your government is building infrastructure to quell civil unrest rather than moving full steam ahead toward universal basic income.