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# EDRi says EU Council's Digital Omnibus deal weakens data protection rights
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-11-04-edri-digital-omnibus-council-position/
- Published: 2026-11-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-06T11:31:04.000Z
- Description: EDRi says the Council's 21 October negotiating position on the Digital Omnibus lets firms invoke "legitimate interest" for AI training and treat pseudonymised data as non personal for third parties, weakening EU data protection.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [EDRi, 4 November 2026](https://edri.org/our-work/eu-governments-call-it-simplification-but-their-data-omnibus-deal-considerably-weakens-our-rights/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What the source does not establish.** This does not establish that Parliament or the final trilogue text will keep these provisions; EDRi gives its own reading of the Council text.

**Index score.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. EU-wide negotiating position already agreed by all member states in Council, hence binding 2, scale 3. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

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