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Train de mesures sur le numérique (débat)
At this stage the Commission has stretched the word “simplification” so far it has lost all meaning. Nothing in this proposal will simplify life for ordinary people. It will make life easier for Big Tech to exploit extensive loopholes. This Digital Omnibus is not simplification; it is deregulation and corporate capture dressed as reform. Europe’s data-protection and AI safeguards are being weakened, not for small business owners but for corporate convenience. This is an attack on the privacy rights of EU citizens. Under this package, the compliance deadlines for high-risk AI, from biometric identification to credit-scoring systems, are delayed. Proposed changes to the GDPR risk narrowing what counts as personal data, allowing companies to treat information once protected, as something they can reuse. This is being sold to the public as a fix for cookie-banner fatigue. The real choice is far more serious: do we allow corporations to mine and repurpose sensitive personal data under an ever-expanding notion of “legitimate interest,” with less transparency and fewer safeguards than today? Whose interests are we defending? Certainly not those of the public. This hands another advantage to surveillance capitalism. Europe should strengthen digital rights, not dilute them to satisfy Big Tech billionaires.