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   Major privacy laws - including GDPR - could be downgraded to try and boost AI   
   growth and cut red tape   
      
   Date:   
   Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:16:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   A digital omnibus package could enhance the EUs position as an AI leader -    
   but at the cost of privacy.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   New documents seen by Politico suggest some European privacy laws, like GDPR,   
   could soon be eased to boost European competitiveness and support AI   
   innovation.    
      
   A proposal, expected on November 19, 2025, could see a new digital omnibus   
   package revealed to simplify tech laws.    
      
   Such a change could allow AI developers to process some categories of data,   
   like political views, religion and health, for training purposes.   
      
   Europe might change how AI trains on your data   
      
    Politico suggests pseudonymized data  anonymized by removing personally   
   identifiable information  could no longer always be protected by laws like   
   GDPR, which means it could go on to be used in AI training.    
      
   Furthermore, websites and apps may gain broader legal grounds for tracking   
   users beyond consent.    
      
   However, these changes could be targeted and technical, which means that the   
   core GDPR principles would not be altered.    
      
   That said, the potential changes have already garnered scrutiny  changing   
   GDPR, which is still a relatively new law and one thats been welcomed by    
   those with an eye on privacy  would risk political scrutiny.    
      
   GDPR architect Jan Philipp Albrecht warns a change could [undermine] European   
   standards dramatically.    
      
   Is this the end of data protection and privacy as we have signed it into the   
   EU treaty and fundamental rights charter, Albrecht wrote.    
      
   The Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Austria and Slovenia have already    
   opposed to a GDPR rewrite.    
      
   Germany appears to be in support of such a change, while Finland seems to   
   welcome changes that benefit European AI competitiveness.    
      
   On a global scale, these protective measures have been slated for holding   
   Europe back amid growth by the US and China in terms of AI development. EU   
   privacy regulators have already delayed or blocked a number of AI rollouts by   
   Meta, Google, OpenAI and others.    
      
   The European Commission has not yet publicly declared changes to GDPR and/or   
   other privacy rules, but expectations that this could happen in the coming   
   days have started discussions on both sides of the coin.    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/major-privacy-laws-including-gdpr-could-be-downg   
   raded-to-try-and-boost-ai-growth-and-cut-red-tape   
      
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