EDPB and EDPS publish Digital Omnibus joint opinion
11/02/2026 | EDPB
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have issued a Joint Opinion on the proposed Digital Omnibus packages.
While the two regulators support the overall objective of simplifying the EU's digital framework and boosting competitiveness, they have expressed serious concerns about proposed changes to the definition of personal data. As such, they warn that these amendments go beyond targeted or technical amendments of the GDPR, exceed the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and could significantly narrow the concept of personal data. The regulators also argue that the European Commission should not be granted the power to decide whether data ceases to be personal after pseudonymisation.
Despite these concerns, the opinion identifies several positive developments in the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, such as data breach notification thresholds, common templates for impact assessments, the introduction of a biometric authentication derogation to process special categories of data and efforts to address cookie consent fatigue.
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