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EU to ease AI, privacy rules as critics warn of caving to Big Tech, Trump
The EU plans to ease AI and privacy regulations by allowing personal data use for AI training without consent and postponing high-risk AI rules by one year, officials said.
- On Wednesday, the European Union will streamline its AI and privacy rules as Henna Virkkunen, EU antitrust chief, presents a 'Digital Omnibus' to cut red tape including the GDPR and AI Act.
- Over the past decade the EU introduced laws from the General Data Protection Regulation to the AI Act, with tech lobby groups urging a pause after the AI Act entered into force last year.
- The draft says it will allow firms to use personal data for AI training on a legitimate interest basis without consent, delay rules for high-risk AI systems by a year, and exempt some from EU database registration.
- The proposals require approval from EU countries and privacy‑focused members of the European Parliament before taking effect, while campaigners deployed four mobile billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to resist pressure as Brando Benifei urged defending digital rights on Tuesday.
- Legal advisers like Dessislava Savova and Ahmed Baladi argue the package aims for simpler rules that foster innovation while critics and 127 civil organisations warn it represents 'the biggest rollback of digital fundamental rights in EU history.
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