Why the Digital Omnibus Puts GDPR and EPrivacy at Aisk
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43445736
And I especially like the "legitimate interests" (or whatever) to suck data even from the "edge".
But on the bright side, I suppose now everyone (or is it just the AI companies?) have a right to create new avatars of Commissioners a'la:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45577130
And even if the two links are made to correlate...?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/trial-paris-br...
Because it could always be that "AI did it", right? And people have LLMs running locally too, so you never can know whose bullshit it is. And with this omnibus package, there is nothing you can do, basically (except criminal justice but then too it gets interesting if your local or remote LLM is just bullshitting you and you have no better knowledge). Post-truth, really.
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