On November 19, the European Commission presented its project to “simplify” existing European regulations in the digital sector.
In the context of the predation of our economy by large platforms and American and Chinese tech giants, we can expect a broad political consensus to adopt a line of defense that aligns with our principles and interests in the digital domain. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
The statement had been made a day earlier by Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz during a Franco-German summit, with their request to delay the implementation of regulations on artificial intelligence and revise the so-called GDPR law.
The first aims to regulate AI giants so that they do not deploy technology that threatens our basic rights. The second guarantees European citizens the protection of their personal data.
Therefore, the Commission makes its point by proposing nothing more and nothing less than an open surrender to the lobbying of the tech oligarchy and the dictates of Donald Trump. Therefore, we are faced with the most serious threat ever of diminishing our digital rights, as well as our basic rights.
The Digital Omnibus – the European Commission’s package of measures aimed at simplifying a range of regulations – will in no way strengthen Europe’s digital “competitiveness”. Instead by destroying our laws
