The European Commission is proposing significant changes to privacy laws, which may allow major tech companies such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI to utilize Europeans' personal data for training AI models under the guise of 'legitimate interest.' Privacy advocates have expressed strong opposition, claiming these changes would violate existing EU case law and weaken the protections established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The proposed Digital Omnibus aims to streamline various regulations, including the GDPR and the e-Privacy Directive. Critics, including the Austrian privacy group noyb, argue that these modifications represent a substantial downgrade of privacy rights, ten years after the GDPR's implementation. The proposals will undergo further discussions with EU member states and the European Parliament before any potential implementation.