In a joint opinion published on Wednesday 11 February, the two European data protection authorities, the EDPB and the EDPS, strongly criticize the European Commission’s proposed revision of the GDPR, which they consider to be a considerable weakening of protection standards (see EUROPE B13755A4).
In its simplification package presented in November, the Commission proposed a number of changes to the regulation on personal data, including two that quickly became controversial: changes to...