Europe’s digital regulatory environment is undergoing its most ambitious streamlining effort to date. We have already written in this blog about the first leaked draft of the data reform and the AI part of the Omnibus (see here and here). On 19 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled the full Digital Omnibus proposal, relating to streamlining the data protection part of legislation.

On November 19, 2025, the European Commission published a substantial proposal to adjust and streamline the implementation of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Known as the Digital Omnibus on AI, this new regulation does not rewrite the AI Act, but it carefully “rebalances the machinery” behind it. Its mission is clear: reduce administrative burdens, accelerate compliance, and ensure that the EU’s landmark AI law is applied in a way that is proportionate, innovation-friendly, and feasible for industry and national authorities alike.

The European Commission’s leaked “Digital Omnibus” proposal — an internal draft of amendments to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive — signals the most significant shake-up of Europe’s data protection framework since 2018. While framed as a “technical alignment” exercise, the proposed revisions could fundamentally weaken core GDPR principles, narrow data subject rights, and carve out broad exceptions for AI development and commercial data use.

Note: This is a very brief summary of some of the findings of the research project funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark entitled "The Data Driven Home: A Study of the Socio-Material and Legal Construction of the 21st Century Home." A full open-access article which Martin Friis Nielsen and myself have published in Information & Communications Technology Law is available…

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Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

I commented yesterday on how Elon Musk’s many questionable tweets become a problem when X’s algorithmic practices violate the EU Digital Services Act (DSA)’s obligations on risk identification and mitigation. The ink had barely dried before Meta announced that “starting in the US”, they will be ending their third-party fact-checking program and moving to an X-style “Community Notes”. Instead of independent fact-checkers, Meta will rely on a user-driven alert system where “the community” will decide what gets upvoted.

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