Miguel Afonso Caetano"On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus package, a legislative proposal to amend the AI Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, the Data Act, and several cybersecurity frameworks in a single stroke. The word “simplification” appeared 23 times in the accompanying press release.
Six days earlier, a coalition of 127 civil society organisations had already published an open letter warning that the package would amount to, in their words, the biggest rollback of digital fundamental rights in EU history.
The Commission chose the word “simplification” carefully. Nobody opposes simplification. Simplification sounds like tidying a desk.
What the Omnibus actually proposes is something altogether more consequential: delaying the AI Act’s core obligations for high-risk systems by up to 16 months, creating a new legitimate interest basis under the GDPR for companies training AI models on personal data, narrowing the definition of personal data itself, and removing the obligation for AI providers and deployers to ensure staff AI literacy."
https://thenextweb.com/news/europe-is-dismantling-its-own-rulebook-to-compete-with-america
Europe is dismantling its own rulebook to compete with America
On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus package, a legislative proposal to amend the AI Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, the Data Act, and several cybersecurity frameworks in a single stroke. The word “simplification” appeared 23 times in the accompanying press release. Six days earlier, a coalition of 127 civil […]
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