"Rules set by Google were more important than the rules set by the GDPR" so true @robin.berjon.com

Undergrad tuition at La Sorbonne was about €150 per year. But for another €150 you also got very extensive health coverage, so there's that.

Oh I know, I know. They may be considering those too expensive to maintain because they've never been to Japan and therefore don't know that they don't have to be broken all the time.

The word for "no-fight" is "collaborators."

I suspect they're extremely focused on decreasing labour costs. I'm not convinced that it's a good strategy.

I'm probably super naïve but you would *think* that Estonians understand the threat of state surveillance :(

And also stocks of non-perishable food at train stations in case they're really stuck.

That said, if it's August and the AC doesn't work and your kids drink all the water you're still fucked. I don't understand why there are no vending machines.

The GDPR amendments are the worst thing the Commission has come up with in the last 10 years, even worse than ChatControl. If this is how they plan to (t)roll this mandate, I'd rather the Commission not do anything at all on digital.

There is no value, they just want to make it look like they're doing something.

I know, but I haven't seen anything uniting, say, food safety people, digital activists, etc. They're used to ignoring civil society, but "United Experts Across Europe Tell Commission To Stop Being Idiots" would get real coverage, probably work at least some.

That is clearly the case here. And they keep pressuring people to move faster. It's fucking terrifying.

I wonder if we could put together an expert statement across all topics.

If they did as good a job as they did for data, I hope you like that tangy flavour that Salmonella brings to the table.
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I don't know about the other areas that they're "simplifying" but if they're done in the same way it's going to be an absolute shit show across industries.

The report below shows how Google & Apple have made espionage by arbitrary actors trivial. Yet they remove precisely the kind of protection that could be used to bolster national security.

At this point the Commission is basically a Fifth Column of the Trump regime.
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There's also a media exemption that isn't defined very clearly but what little detail is given would make online journalism even *more* vulnerable to tech monopolies and would strengthen the funding of slop and disinformation.

It's preposterously asinine as well as dangerous.

In multiple cases, they make things muddier for businesses on top of neutering data protection.

They talk about competitiveness, but most of the changes actually make it even harder for European companies to compete with American incumbents, including in AI.