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EDPB chair relieved changes to sensitive data scope dropped from GDPR amendments

By Matthew Newman ( November 20, 2025, 11:01 GMT | Insight) -- Anu Talus, chair of an umbrella group of European data protection authorities, said on Thursday that she’s “quite relieved” that a draft change to the treatment of sensitive data – including religious, political and sexual information – has been dropped from proposed amendments to the EU’s privacy regime. In the European Commission’s final version of the digital omnibus package, aimed at reducing the regulatory burden on companies (see here), a suggested amendment that would have changed the approach to special categories of data was removed. ...

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