EU Digital Omnibus: Resetting Europe’s digital rulebook
by Sypher | Published in News - November 17, 2025
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EU Digital Omnibus: Resetting Europe’s digital rulebook
🚨Brussels is preparing the most significant overhaul of digital regulations in years. The Digital Omnibus is set to streamline overlapping data laws, address consent fatigue and ease the pressure of the AI Act, in an attempt to resolve Europe's increasingly unmanageable compliance landscape. The EC is going to present its simplification proposals on 19 November... read more
More points of view:
👉 The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus could increase risks, not growth (Bruegel.org).
👉 EU Commission internal draft would wreck core principles of the GDPR (NYOB).
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