Background. Following a leak earlier this month, the EU Commission has officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal on 19 November. While some heavily criticised changes were removed in an effort to ease the opposition, others were snuck in. This means that, contrary to the Commission's official communications, the Omnibus proposal would undermine several core provisions of the privacy law – and jeopardise people’s fundamental right to data protection.
Detailed legal analysis. We have worked tirelessly on the matter over the past weeks, trying to conduct a deep analysis of all relevant changes. This is still early days, but certain problems, inconsistencies, or at least clear departure from the current logic of the GDPR or CJEU case law are evident. We compiled our findings concerning the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive in a detailed report, which you can download here.
Deep dive video. In addition, our legal team has also recorded a video, which talks about all the relevant changes proposed by the European Commission. You can watch that video here.