{"id":22130,"date":"2026-02-23T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22130\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:08:09","slug":"brussels-privacy-reforms-stumble-out-the-gate-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22130\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels\u2019 privacy reforms stumble out the gate \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Commission in November presented its “digital omnibus”<\/a> plan as part of a bigger overhaul of data and AI laws that seeks to boost AI technology in Europe. It is one of (so far) 10 so-called omnibuses<\/a> that aim to slash red tape and boost European competitiveness proposed by Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission. <\/p>\n

The new document, dated Feb. 20, was prepared by the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, currently held by Cyprus, and serves as a basis for national governments to negotiate a joint position on the privacy reforms.<\/p>\n

The Cypriots took aim at a core change to the data protection rulebook: how the law defines personal data. If approved, the change would move troves of data out of the scope of privacy protections.<\/p>\n

The revision sought to adapt the GDPR to\u00a0a recent ruling<\/a>\u00a0by the EU\u2019s top court (SRB v EDPS<\/a>), which found that sometimes “pseudonymized” data, where a person\u2019s details are obscured so they can\u2019t be easily identified, could move it outside the strict privacy guardrails of the GDPR.<\/p>\n

That would particularly benefit companies, including AI developers, which would be able to use pseudonymized data more freely as long as they can’t reasonably re-identify data subjects.<\/p>\n

The changes have already triggered a backlash from European privacy regulators, which this month\u00a0warned against<\/a>\u00a0amending the definition, and have split EU countries, which pushed back against the reform in early position papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But European tech and business lobby groups welcomed<\/a> the Commission’s proposed reforms, applauding the EU executive for its efforts to unlock more data to fuel AI innovation.<\/p>\n

EU countries will consider the text on Feb. 27 at a meeting of diplomats focused on the EU\u2019s simplification efforts. In the European Parliament, lawmakers are working on a first position on the GDPR reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commission in November presented its “digital omnibus” plan as part of a bigger overhaul of data and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,4740,2013,3322,3500,446,7310,4843,685],"class_list":["post-22130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-companies","tag-courts","tag-data","tag-data-protection","tag-innovation","tag-omnibus","tag-privacy","tag-regulation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}