Can the Digital Omnibus make data protection law AI-ready?
As the US and China pour resources into AI, Europe is asking whether its own rulebook helps or hinders. The Digital Omnibus, proposed in November 2025, would recalibrate the EU's data protection...
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Can the Digital Omnibus make data protection law AI-ready?
As the US and China pour resources into AI, Europe is asking whether its own rulebook helps or hinders. The Digital Omnibus, proposed in November 2025, would recalibrate the EU's data protection framework, reshaping how firms can build and deploy AI in Europe. Negotiations on the proposal are now underway.
The starting point of this report is that privacy and AI-driven innovation are inherently in conflict. In many settings, from bias mitigation to privacy-enhancing technologies, the interests of users and developers are aligned. The real task is to identify where their interests genuinely diverge.
This paper, by Marco Bassini and Cristiana Firullo, assesses the Omnibus from this starting point and combining legal and economic analysis.
Evaluating the Omnibus
The report concludes that three changes would genuinely strengthen innovation:
The Omnibus would provide a clearer legal basis for training AI models. Th
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