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EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR (noyb.eu)
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Consent to use of your data for AI training is non-optional! This is progress, we have declared! You don't want to stand in the way of progress, do you?

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

There was a ton of panic here in Sweden too. Specifically I heard of entities like councils and public boards like unemployment who were braced for a ton of data deletion requests that had to be fixed within 24 hours or something like otherwise huge legal fees. AFAIK nothing like that happened.