AI companies have managed to persuade the EU they need to cut GDPR up. https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-knifes-privacy-to-feed-the-ai-boom-gdpr-digital-omnibus/
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom

Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.

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@GossiTheDog @briankrebs This is so backwards. It would be devastating for human rights. We must stop this.
@Em0nM4stodon @GossiTheDog So the claim is that it will all be anonymized data is complete bollocks. Just like the mobile ad companies say oh this mobile location data is anonymized, and then you have this enormously profitable industry of brokers who are piecing all the marketing industry data points together to build detailed profiles on people.
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Sometimes I need to explain this to family for example. Always ask: when they know everything about a person except for his name, would you call it "private" ...?