🏛️📉 EU proposes significant delays and simplifications to AI and data privacy regulations
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The European Commission has proposed significant delays to high-risk AI regulations, pushing the deadline to December 2027, as part of a broader Digital Omnibus aimed at simplifying tech laws. Proposed changes to the GDPR would allow companies to use personal data for AI training without explicit consent, raising concerns about privacy rights. The Commission argues these measures are necessary to enhance competitiveness amid pressure from the U.S. and tech giants. Approval from the European Parliament and member states is required for the proposals to become law.
Key points
- The European Commission plans to delay high-risk AI regulations until December 2027.
- Proposed changes to GDPR will ease data usage for AI training, raising privacy concerns.
- The Digital Omnibus aims to streamline tech regulations, but critics warn of potential rights rollbacks.
- Approval from EU member states and Parliament is required for the proposals to become law.
Links
- Deutsche Welle: EU plans to ease GDPR laws and AI constraints in major shift
- 20minutos: Bruselas lanza su 'limpieza' regulatoria del mundo digital: control centralizado, margen para pymes y nuevas normas para la IA
- Politico: The EU promised to lead on regulating artificial intelligence. Now it's hitting pause.
- Politico: Germany wakes up to US tech dominance
- Deutsche Welle: Macron y Merz prometen luchar por soberanía digital europea
- RFI: Aujourd'hui l'économie - La Commission européenne prête à sacrifier la protection de la vie privée sur l'autel de la simplification numérique?
- ANSA: Mennuni, 'ripreso iter della legge sulla maggiore età digitale' - Bambini news - Ansa.it
- Euronews: Denmark plans final effort to break EU privacy chief deadlock
- Il sole 24 ORE: La Commissione Ue propone rinvio e semplificazioni per le norme sull'intelligenza artificiale ad alto rischio
- Reuters: EU to delay 'high risk' AI rules until 2027 after Big Tech pushback
- Euractiv: Commission plans sweeping cuts to tech laws to pave the way for AI | Euractiv
- elDiario: La Comisión Europea rebaja las normas de la Inteligencia Artificial ante la presión de Trump y las grandes tecnológicas
- El Mundo: Bruselas simplifica sus leyes de IA tras las presiones de Trump y del sector: moratoria normativa para ChatGPT y menos "fatiga" de cookies en los usuarios
- France 24: EU moves to delay 'high-risk' AI rules amid pressure to boost innovation
- ANSA: Dombrovskis: "Innovazione e meno burocrazia sono necessarie per la produttività dell'Ue" - Altre news - Ansa.it
- Euractiv: Commission proposes delaying key part of EU's AI rules | Euractiv
- ABC: Europa propone cambios en la ley para competir en inteligencia artificial con EE.UU. y China
- Tagesschau (ARD): EU-Kommission will Cookie-Klicks im Internet reduzieren
Facts
- The implementation of high-risk AI regulations is delayed until December 2027.
- Proposed changes to GDPR will allow data usage for AI training without explicit consent.
- The Digital Omnibus aims to streamline various tech regulations.
- Approval from the European Parliament and EU member states is needed for the proposals.
Quotes
- Simplification is not deregulation. Simplification means that we are taking a critical look at our regulatory landscape — Commission Official
- What is being presented as a 'technical streamlining' of EU digital laws is, in reality, an attempt to covertly dismantle Europe's strongest protections against digital threats — Open letter from civil society organizations
- The objective... is not to lower the high privacy standards we have for our citizens — Thomas Regnier, EU spokesman for digital affairs
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