Civil society groups blast impending EU deregulation as capitulation to AI companies

The Center for Democracy and Technology is among 127 organizations calling on the European Commission to stop the rollback of a host of digital rights laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation and the EU AI Act, which they say would help the AI industry escape accountability.

“We 127 civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest write to emphasise our serious alarm at the forthcoming EU Digital Omnibus proposals, part of a wide deregulation agenda,” reads...