[CPWG] GDPR - from Politico, today

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FYI with acknowledgemnt to Politico.

CW

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HARDER, BETTER, FASTER GDPR: The European Commission will this morning present a law to bolster enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in major European privacy investigations targeting the likes of Google, Meta and Amazon. Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders will take to the press conference stage at 11 a.m.

The problem (according to critics): Detractors say the current system is inefficient and slow, because the Irish and, to a lesser extent, the Luxembourgish privacy authorities direct major cases against Big Tech companies that have set up EU headquarters in their countries because of favorable tax regimes.

The solution (according to the Commission): Today’s proposed regulation will set common rules to speed up complex cross-border probes, and force privacy regulators to better coordinate on major investigations.

But activists are unlikely to be satisfied, as the EU executive will tread lightly with its changes, according to a draft of the regulation seen by Playbook and my colleague Clothilde Goujard (Cybersecurity and Data Protection and Technology Pros can read her curtain-raiser here <https://politico.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e26c1a1c392386a968d02fdbc&id=952e867ac2&e=543950eebb>).

Core untouched: “With our new proposal, we are [in] no way changing the core data protection rules, the rights of data subjects, or the roles of [data protection authorities] as enforcers,” Reynders said in a statement.


> On 28 Jun 2023, at 21:42, Chantelle Doerksen via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org> wrote:

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