Council of the EU Must Prevent GDPR Changes From Eroding Privacy Rights, EPIC, Coalition Urge
EPIC and a coalition of privacy advocates have urged the Council of the European Union to block proposed changes to GDPR that they say would weaken existing privacy protections. The groups are pushing EU member states to resist modifications they believe would roll back rights the regulation was designed to guarantee.
Why this matters: GDPR is the closest thing the world has to a real floor on privacy rights. When it gets weakened, that matters well beyond Europe. Companies operating globally often use GDPR compliance as their baseline, so erosion there tends to travel. The pressure here is coming from inside the process — member state governments negotiating changes that civil society groups say ordinary people never asked for. If those changes go through quietly, millions of people lose protections they probably assume are still there.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · AI governance · General readers · Policy
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