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Austrian privacy activist, lawyer, and founder of noyb; known for landmark CJEU cases invalidating EU-US data transfer frameworks
The opt-out approach does not work in practice. Companies don't have the contract details of users and users don't know who is training based on their data. There is absolutely no public support for Meta or Google to include Europeans' personal data into their algorithms. Now all your data is shoved into the algorithms of Meta, Google or Amazon. This makes it easier for AI systems to know even the most intimate details - and consequently manipulate people. This primarily benefits the trillion-dollar US industry that builds based models from our personal details.
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Grant individuals the right to opt out of being included in AI training data
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Disputed Disputed. The cited noyb page dated 19 November 2025—not 2026—does contain two separate Max Schrems quotes, but not the submitted text as one verbatim quote. One quote says, in part, “There is absolutely no public support for Meta or Google…” and continues through “This primarily benefits the trillion-dollar US industry…”; a separate later quote says, “The opt-out approach does not work in practice…” and then adds another sentence not included in the submission. The submitted version stitches these separate quotes together, changes the order, and omits text without using an ellipsis, so it is materially altered rather than verbatim. ([noyb.eu](https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1d ago
AI Verified Checked author attribution, year, relevance, vote alignment, and source. The noyb.eu source_url returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote elements from that exact noyb article on the EU Digital Omnibus (2026): Schrems criticizing the opt-out approach as a "fig leaf," that "Companies don't have contract details of users and users don't know who is training based on their data," and concern that European personal data benefits the trillion-dollar US tech industry (Meta/Google/Amazon). Attribution to Max Schrems (noyb founder) is correct; year 2026 is current and relevant. On vote alignment: although the quote criticizes opt-out as inadequate (Schrems prefers opt-in/consent), the "for" vote on "Grant individuals the right to opt out of being included in AI training data" is the correct direction — as a privacy advocate he supports individuals' right to control inclusion of their data; his critique is that opt-out alone is insufficient, not opposition to the right itself. Source is the primary article from his own organization. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 19d ago
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