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Major privacy laws - including GDPR - could be downgraded to try and boost AI
growth and cut red tape

Date:
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:16:00 +0000

Description:
A digital omnibus package could enhance the EUs position as an AI leader - 
but at the cost of privacy.

FULL STORY

New documents seen by Politico suggest some European privacy laws, like GDPR,
could soon be eased to boost European competitiveness and support AI
innovation. 

A proposal, expected on November 19, 2025, could see a new digital omnibus
package revealed to simplify tech laws. 

Such a change could allow AI developers to process some categories of data,
like political views, religion and health, for training purposes.

Europe might change how AI trains on your data

 Politico suggests pseudonymized data  anonymized by removing personally
identifiable information  could no longer always be protected by laws like
GDPR, which means it could go on to be used in AI training. 

Furthermore, websites and apps may gain broader legal grounds for tracking
users beyond consent. 

However, these changes could be targeted and technical, which means that the
core GDPR principles would not be altered. 

That said, the potential changes have already garnered scrutiny  changing
GDPR, which is still a relatively new law and one thats been welcomed by 
those with an eye on privacy  would risk political scrutiny. 

GDPR architect Jan Philipp Albrecht warns a change could [undermine] European
standards dramatically. 

Is this the end of data protection and privacy as we have signed it into the
EU treaty and fundamental rights charter, Albrecht wrote. 

The Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Austria and Slovenia have already 
opposed to a GDPR rewrite. 

Germany appears to be in support of such a change, while Finland seems to
welcome changes that benefit European AI competitiveness. 

On a global scale, these protective measures have been slated for holding
Europe back amid growth by the US and China in terms of AI development. EU
privacy regulators have already delayed or blocked a number of AI rollouts by
Meta, Google, OpenAI and others. 

The European Commission has not yet publicly declared changes to GDPR and/or
other privacy rules, but expectations that this could happen in the coming
days have started discussions on both sides of the coin. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/major-privacy-laws-including-gdpr-could-be-downg
raded-to-try-and-boost-ai-growth-and-cut-red-tape

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