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.

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    1810·
    1 个月前

    Did you read the article? It says that making AI training easier is a key purpose of these changes.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        132·
        1 个月前

        Did I say you should approve of it? I’m just explaining why it comes as no surprise to me.

      • fonix232@fedia.io
        33·
        1 个月前

        Why do you presume that all AI advancement is purely by technofascists?

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          1 个月前

          The kind of “AI advancement” that requires stripping away privacy rights is definitely done by technofascists.

      • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 个月前

        See, my first thought would be to crack down on the tech parasites that are ruining out society instead of changing the law to accommodate them. But I’m just a dumb American who lives in a place where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want including killing whistleblowers, but I’m sure that the fascist parties taking power in Europe won’t do that.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        31·
        1 个月前

        Then why change the rules? The article’s author seems quite convinced that this will make AI training easier.

        • ag10n@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 个月前

          Because they want to strip the right to privacy so they can better monetize

          Naive to think the GDPR is stopping anyone now.

          • FaceDeer@fedia.io
            41·
            1 个月前

            Naive to think the GDPR is stopping anyone now.

            So again, why change the rules? If the GDPR is already ineffective there’s no need to loosen it more.

            • ag10n@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 个月前

              Are you asking me why some in Europe want to make it legal? Because they’re already doing it, just they want to make it legal

              Make sense?

              • FaceDeer@fedia.io
                21·
                1 个月前

                If they’re already doing it then no change is necessary. So why change it?

                If making it legal makes it easier for them to do, then that was my original point. That’s why I think they’re making the change.

                • ag10n@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  1 个月前

                  Because laws are supposed to have teeth and consequences There is zero doubt that everything public on the internet or otherwise is consumed and aggregated by these companies; you still don’t understand why weakening regulations benefits them?

                  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
                    21·
                    1 个月前

                    So you are saying that weakening these regulations makes it easier for these companies to train AI on that data?

                    That’s exactly what I’ve been saying all along too. I’m not sure what you think is being argued about here, or what you think I’m not understanding.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 个月前

        Sounds like the problem is lack of enforcement of the existing laws rather than the existing laws being bad.

        To provide an extreme example, just because there’s a wave of murders doesn’t mean murder should be made legal.