cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52834195
“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.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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Is that really what this is about? I feel the GDPR is a different thing, independent of the cookies popup being a browser standard or not. The article talks about altering the definition of “personal data”. I don’t see why you can’t keep the same definition while requesting websites to follow a browser standard… so I feel these are different things.
Or are you implying that the EU doesn’t get proposals to gut privacy/data protections? (regardless of whether they’re accepted)