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EU advances rules that wrestle control of user data away from Big Tech

by shakes on 6/28/23, 6:55 PM with 3 comments

• by mdrzn on 6/29/23, 10:24 AM

  This is a significant step towards empowering users and ensuring privacy in the digital age. Giving users more control over their data is crucial, and it's great to see my EU taking steps in that direction.

  It will be interesting to see how companies navigate the balance between data sharing and protecting trade secrets.

  Overall, this is a positive development for data protection and user rights, just like GDPR was. Let's see the implementation.

• by grammers on 6/28/23, 7:11 PM

  > The preliminary agreement includes new freedoms to move data between different cloud providers, measures to promote development of interoperability standards, and rules to give public sector bodies the ability to access and use data to, for example, deal with public emergencies. On the flip side, there are also safeguards that attempt to prevent unlawful data transfers.

  Let's see how this turns out: give public sector bodies access to the data, but at the same time implement safeguards to prevent unlawful data transfers...

• by sylware on 6/28/23, 7:11 PM

  This is far from enough: big tech needs hardcore technical regulation to enforce interoperability with small tech.

  For instance for the web: noscript/basic (x)html support where it is reasonable (most if not all web sites).

  Big tech must interoperate with simple, but able to do a good enough job, protocols and that stable in time.