People's sexual orientation, ethnicity, or political views could be exposed in proposed EU changes to the 'GDPR' digital-rights laws, civil society experts warn, after a leaked draft.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52834195

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“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.

  • Ferk@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    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)