Europäische Kommission wird „massiver Rücknahme“ digitaler Schutzmaßnahmen beschuldigt | Vorgeschlagene Änderungen am KI-Gesetz würden es Technologiefirmen erleichtern, personenbezogene Daten zum Trainieren von Modellen ohne Zustimmung zu verwenden
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/european-commission-accused-of-massive-rollback-of-digital-protections
Von xenodragon20
14 Kommentare
When money speaks louder than the digital rights and protections of your citizens.
The sad truth is: its either that or only be a user of ground breaking tech, never the inventor.
USA doesnt give a shit about its people, but they have tech. Its either infortunately. Never both
„we will fall behind on new tech“ – no, we will fall behind on shitty LLMs that are trying to brand incorrect info as „hallucinations“ instead of what it actually is; what they’re designed to do; make up text.
Anyone looking at „AI“ and datacenters in the US and thinking that we need more of that is fucking insane.
EU can’t follow USA and make rights dependent on how much money you have, in other words: how many times you can sue some tech company that stole your intellectual or private property.
>After a long period of rule-making, the EU agenda has shifted since the former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi warned in a report last autumn that Europe had fallen behind the US and China in innovation and was weak in the emerging technologies that would drive future growth, such as AI. The EU has also come under heavy pressure from the Trump administration to rein in digital laws.
„AI“ now is not some emerging technology, it’s the outcome of applying mountains of hardware and terabytes of data to machine learning techniques. As an analogy, the „AI“ techno race is like a race to build the tallest skyscrapers. Sure, there’s some building innovation, but it’s not really major innovation or useful innovation, we already know how to build huge skyscrapers. The „innovation“ they’re adding is burning large piles of money to scale up even more, as if the building the biggest tower would somehow reach another realm/dimension and invoke the reaction of a god („“““‚emergence'““““).
If it was at least European AI companies scraping the data to induce growth, it would be a different matter. But in the end it’s just a handout to American companies.
Shirley the same people looking to scan everyone to „save the children“ cannot at the same time collaborate with techbros overlords?
I want a fking list of every biotch saying the word „rollback“ while making „accusations“ cos to me it sounds like politicians LISTENING to the people they REPRESENT
Good
Almost like we bow to the usa…. Must be my immagination
If AI can’t be developed without using my personal identifiable information without my consent, then we don’t need AI.
It’s asinine to even say this, imagine if I put forward a project that required me to have your full name and address without your consent, you’d call me scum.
Too bad that the ghost of the AI act already completely stall AI developpement in Europe.
Now it is a free market for US and China.
Good job eurodeputee what an amazing skills you all haves at killing every opportunity on this continent to serve it to foreign countries.
For a long time, the people in power spread the idea that their power was based on some natural law. From „god ensures we are born into the right caste“ to „this super-legit science says our skin color/ sex/ etc. is the best“.
They still say it’s a natural law, but changed the framing. Now, they depict life as a fair, natural competition and themselves as the winners. They still spread the idea that they are naturally superior, but now they can also blame poor people for their lot. After all, they are no longer a peasant because god made them as one or because „their kind“ naturally belongs at the bottom, no, they had their shot and lost the game because they are too „lazy“ or simply not good enough.
Now, every dictator gets rid of creatives the second they seize power.
But for the first time in history, getting rid of artists is *sold* as a goal. Everyone is supplied with a convenient replacement, one that is forced into every device and workplace and when the people eventually realize there are no creators left, the people above will say „This is your fault, you used the product, we just sold it. You can’t blame us for your choice to use it.“
>… changes to GDPR would allow “the unchecked use of people’s most intimate data for training AI systems” and that a wide range of exemptions proposed to online privacy rules would mean businesses would be able to read data on phones and browsers without asking.
So giving AI models an even greater ability to fake a person, by using their most confidential & private messages, is something the Commission thinks is a good thing for non-EU countries to be able to do.
They must be the most technologically illiterate Commission we have ever had in the EU. Nevermind, the most destructive of our privacy rights.
Do these business leaders not realise this will mean US companies will preferentially gain an even greater insight into EU businesses‘ messages by training AI on senior management data? Then they’ll have those AI models predict EU business strategies and then out-flank them.
We don’t have digital sovereignty, all these new rules will overwhelmingly benefit the FAANGs of this world, not any EU companies.
GDPR needs some tweaks certainly, but these proposals aren’t them (Except browser-side cookie rules – that one is good).
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We do have options when it comes to these policy failures & inanities of this rights-removing Commission:
>In addition to its role in approving a new Commission, the European Parliament has the power at any time to force the entire Commission to resign through a vote of no confidence. This requires a vote that makes up at least two-thirds of those voting and a majority of the total membership of the Parliament. While it has never used this power, it threatened to use it against the Commission headed by Jacques Santer in 1999 over allegations of corruption. In response, the Santer Commission resigned en masse of its own accord, the only time a Commission has done so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_commissioner#Accountability
I’m not sure the global innovations brought about by GDPR will survive a full 7-year term of this commission, so it will be up to us to let out MEPs know that they’re re-election depends on putting an end to these repeated attempts at eroding our rights.