NEWS: GDPR revamp should tackle fincrime, online scams – top MEP tells EU Commissioner - AML Intelligence

The right wants to take advantage of the bill debated at the sitting to remove a series of committees deemed useless and alleviate the right of the environment. The left sees it as a weapon of large-calibre deregulation.

The Dutch Parliament has a button that erases all online traces of a user from the Internet. (GDPR, data protection)

European Commission to Propose GDPR Simplification

The EU plans to amend the GDPR to ease regulatory burdens on businesses while maintaining essential privacy protections.

NEWS: GDPR revamp should tackle fincrime, online scams – top MEP tells EU Commissioner - AML Intelligence

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent A LEADING MEP has called on EU Commissioner Michael McGrath to overhaul the GDPR regime to combat financial crime such as online scams more effectively. Speaking in the European Parliament, the EPP’s Regina Doherty stated that while GDPR has protected citizens’ data, it has also hindered law enforcement. “It’s blocked financial institutions from flagging red alerts to law enforcement and imposed huge comp…

Long considered untouchable in Brussels, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be on the table of the European Commission in the coming weeks, with politicians promising to ease strict regulation.