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EDRi says Council draft strips worst GDPR and ePrivacy cuts, risks remain

EDRi assessed the Council's first Digital Omnibus compromise and found damaging changes to the GDPR's personal data definition, scientific research rules and Article 22 dropped, though AI development and terminal equipment provisions remain unresolved.

Reported Opinion AI-drafted EDRi policy analysis, 17 March 2026

What the source does not establish. Does not establish the final Council or trilogue text; the compromise EDRi reviewed was a draft.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. law: digital rights group flags GDPR/ePrivacy risks still open in Council's Omnibus draft. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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