The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Again, enforcement rather than deregulation is the answer.The commission rightly frets that Europeans are plagued by nuisance consent pop-ups.
53% : This will hurt Europe’s innovators and hand the future of Europe’s tech sovereignty to US firms.Once Europe’s most hyped law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now on the chopping block.
52% : Much of what the commission is planning is contrary to the EU’s charter of fundamental rights and rulings from Europe’s top court.
52% : The fact is that large language models remain deeply unprofitable: in the last year they generated an estimated $235bn, but cost an estimated $1.5tn to develop and run.Policy should not be driven by a dogmatic faith that deregulation will always and inevitably liberate innovation.
44% : We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.after newsletter promotionWhen considering the future of Europe’s privacy laws, the commission would do well to treat big tech’s claims about AI and its requests for deregulation with more
39% : Powerful forces within the European Commission, supported by the German government, hope that deregulation will boost Europe’s tech sector, particularly AI.
38% : Diluting it now, in the shadow of Donald Trump, would confirm Europe as a digital vassal of the US, a playground where US firms remain unassailably dominant and where US interests overrule European standards and values.The commission should push key EU member states to enforce GDPR.
22% : Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump.

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