Long seen as untouchable in Brussels, the GDPR is next on the list of the EU’s crusade against overregulation.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60263799

Europe’s most famous technology law, the GDPR, is next on the hit list as the European Union pushes ahead with its regulatory killing spree to slash laws it reckons are weighing down its businesses.

The European Commission plans to present a proposal to cut back the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, in the next couple of weeks. Slashing regulation is a key focus for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as part of an attempt to make businesses in Europe more competitive with rivals in the United States, China and elsewhere.

  • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    GDPR is a good goal, but the implementation is hell. There has to be a way to make well intentioned policies not turn into the nightmare fuel that it inevitably always turns into.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The GDPR is one of the regulations that actually seems to help on a daily basis.

    23andMe is going bankrupt and now a good part of the US is having their DNA sold to the highest bidder.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Cookie banners are completely unnecessary as long as websites only use cookies for technically necessary purposes (e.g. login). The problem is that a lot of websites want to sell your data to hundreds or thousands of other companies. So yeah, we could cut back a lot of red tape there if we just outright banned that sale of data completely.