If the GDPR falls, the message is clear: even the EU’s strongest rights laws can be hollowed out through political convenience and corporate lobbying (Photo: Dayne Topkin)

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The GDPR is being hollowed out — for who, and why?

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by Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal, Brussels,

The EU’s flagship data protection law is under attack. A new EU Commission proposal to ‘simplify’ the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may look narrow and technical. But it could open the floodgates for a significant unravelling of EU’s own rulebook which offers much-needed protections to people.

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Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal is a policy advisor at the European Digital Rights Initiative.

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If the GDPR falls, the message is clear: even the EU’s strongest rights laws can be hollowed out through political convenience and corporate lobbying (Photo: Dayne Topkin)