Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative processes to favor Big Tech interests.

Max Schrems, founder of privacy group Noyb, warned : "One part of the European Commission (EC) seems to try overrunning everyone else in Brussels, disregarding rules on good lawmaking, with potentially terrible results."

He compared the approach to Trump administration tactics, arguing the proposals masquerade as small business relief while actually benefiting tech and advertising giants.

As first reported by MLex , the EC's proposed legislative changes are manifold, and in Noyb's view these would poke so many holes in existing rules to "make [GDPR] overall unusable for most cases."

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