Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles

GDPR Policy This is a first reaction to a developing story. For any changes and/or updates to our statement, please re-check this page.Despite heavy criticism from civil society and large parts of the EU Parliament, the EU Commission has now published its proposal for the “Digital Omnibus”. Contrary to the Commission's official press release, these changes are not “maintaining the highest level of personal data protection”, but massively lower protections for Europeans. While having basically no real benefit for average European small and medium businesses, the proposed changes are a gift to US big tech as they open up many new loopholes for their law departments to exploit. Schrems: “This is the biggest attack on European’s digital rights in years. When the Commission states that it ‘maintains the highest standards’, it clearly is incorrect. It proposes to undermine these standards.” Full text of EU Commission's proposalLargest cut to privacy rights in years. Industry lobby groups hav