# Europe is dismantling its digital rights from within

- Type: News
- Source: European Digital Rights
- Date: 2025-11-27
- Original: https://edri.org/our-work/europe-is-dismantling-its-digital-rights-from-within/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/49191
- Topics: AI Risk Mitigation, Right to Explanation, Telecommunications, Profiling, Automated Decision-Making, Artificial Intelligence, Cookies, AI and Machine Learning

## Summary

The European Commission’s new Digital Omnibus is presented as simple “streamlining”, but in practice it dismantles key safeguards in the GDPR, ePrivacy rules and the AI Act. It would make access to device data easier, weaken limits on automated decision-making and lower protections against discriminatory AI.

## Full text

The European Commission’s new Digital Omnibus is presented as simple “streamlining”, but in practice it dismantles key safeguards in the GDPR, ePrivacy rules and the AI Act. It would make access to device data easier, weaken limits on automated decision-making and lower protections against discriminatory AI.

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