On Wednesday, EU Member States approved a change to the GDPR that would put the profit-making interests of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX over European’s fundamental right to data protection. According to the approved text, processing personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens “in the context” of AI. Schrems: “Under the agreed text, the profits of AI companies would typically trump European’s fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans.” All this is happening despite the key figures of AI corporations actively warning about the enormous risks associated with their own products.
Sounds like the kinda thing we ought to have refendums for but let’s not pretend we have actual democracy.
Surveillance-capitalism is the new norm. Don’t wait for regulation–it won’t arrive. Protect your own computers with libre-software. Don’t use their services.
“EU member states approve…” Always this vague wording so as to imply some sort of democracy. It’s the EU oligarchy that has approved this.
Could they claim “EU citizens approve…”? Of course not.
Fuck the EU oligarchy, and even more fuck the EU sheep citizens that don’t rebel against this. You get what you silently accept.
Guess the U.S. isn’t the only place where it works.
Never has been
Only americans are surprised by this. GDPR is worthless, EU is a clown show, we didn’t even vote for.
Nah. You sound like you have no clue what the EU is.
This new AI regulation is bad, but the EU is the biggest consumer protection agency on the planet.
If you didnt know this, dont comment about it.
Hah! Welcome to Europe, contemporary fascism! Time to bid farewell to all of your rights and freedoms, Europeans. We need to do this to win. Win what, you ask? Super-profits for the bourgeoisie, of course, under whose dictatorship we all already live. Shit’s getting fucked in record time. Prepare for increased austerity and violent repression of dissent. Prepare for war. Prepare for famine, prepare for deteriorating ecology. Prepare for death. We are never voting our way out of this.
This is a joke right , it’s not legit right?
I would never put “doing things that are contrary to normal peoples’ well-being” past the greedy and indifferent assholes in Brussels.
what is a joke? do you think ewwwrope is what bro? dont you see that’s where fascism was born, where it was kepts, nurtured and sheltered until today? don’t you see ewwwrope being fucked by us interests?
Wait so is it the EU broadly or EU member states acting individually?
