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Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe
(www.engadget.com)
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Data protection is actually a misnomer. Protecting your data is just a tool to protect you.
And so the GDPR does not only protect your data. It also protects you from things like profiling or automated legal decisions based on existing data.
For example a health provider is of course allowed to collect and save you health information. Analysing their huge data set and deciding that you are statistically a risk patient and terminating your contract is still very much illegal.
But doesn't protect you against ChatControl.
No it doesn't unfortunately, chat control is literally a loophole for big tech to gather data. They call it a "derogation".
It very much does. Else there would be no need for the EU to create legislation allowing/mandating it.
Right now member states are not allowed to unilaterally mandate chat control I believe.