Europe’s most famous technology law, the GDPR, is next on the hit list as the European Union pushes ahead with its regulatory killing spree to slash laws it reckons are weighing down its businesses.

The European Commission plans to present a proposal to cut back the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, in the next couple of weeks. Slashing regulation is a key focus for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as part of an attempt to make businesses in Europe more competitive with rivals in the United States, China and elsewhere.

  • mocoma@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Yes this is the exact moment that we decide we want to be as similar to the US as possible. These neoliberals need to go.

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        19 hours ago

        That’s a funny way of saying liberals

        What do you mean? By the looks of it the original point was about deregulated free market capitalism, not about individual freedoms in general.