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The EU data retention directive really doesn't compare to what's happening in the US. It merely instructs ISP's and telco's to keep their logs stored for a minimal period of time. …

And slowbanned again . I've now lost all faith in HN. It's okay to criticize big evil government invading our privacy, but please don't say anything bad about our own industry.

> It's okay if I agree to it. That's the typical fallacy. If Chinese factory worker agrees to be exploited in conditions close to slavery doesn't mean that that kind of exploitatio…

Privacy wasn't lost to technology, nor was it given away voluntarily, at least not consciously. It was stolen by greedy corporations. Governments came second, they mostly just leve…

I love it. An IRS audit based on trawling public data is more likely to wake up the moronic "I've got nothing to hide" clowns than any total surveillance by the NSA or the massive …

We're living in 2013, and this is a tech forum, so let's get real: advertising is about tracking, about total surveillance, not sticking a logo on a bus. That's what Google does, t…

Not just anonymous users. Even as a logged-in user with set preferences Google constantly knows better than you which language you want. "Oh, so you did a local search for hardware…

Direct access is only the "most extreme possible interpretation" to a technocrat. For all ordinary people, i.e., most of the world outside HN, the "access" part is the element that…

And one by one those who go into public service sell out and fail to change anything. They become corrupted cogs in a corrupted machine. Changing policy from the inside does not ha…

The scary word here is "probably", because the government consistently refuses to release that data. Although I'm fairly confident we're gonna win the legal and political battle ov…

How do you know this if you haven't physically used it? And why on earth do people assume Apple hasn't thoroughly tested this? They may get many things wrong, but it's insane to th…

How would you call it there were almost half a million fully armed German troops stationed in the US? A great success for US board of tourism?

What's the "utterly implausible" part? In the past we've had verified incidents of people being refused entry because of things posted on for instance public Twitter feeds. So we k…

> mistrust of the government has extended to this industry I'm sorry, are we now taking the opportunity to blame big evil government for this? The mistrust of this industry has alw…

Which is technically illegal in most countries, storing government information on foreign systems. Up until now, it may have been tolerated as long as it didn't concern obviously s…

Dutch press reported very well... on Merkel's reaction. Our own prime minister however pretends nothing is wrong, despite subsequent leaking from his own intelligence service. And …

I hate to defend the Telegraaf, but comparing the Sun to the Telegraaf is like comparing hardcore porn to the SI swimsuit edition. Especially when it comes to issues related to sec…

That's not a very representative sample. Restaurants tends to be better in Germany. And in both countries, prices are much higher and service much worse than in the US, because wai…

This is pretty much a public secret, including the location (there aren't that many potential secure locations in NL). I vaguely remember protesting against this back in the eighti…

That's already been a common discussion for many years. The business world outside the US is very much aware of the problem. What we're likely to see now is article discussing how …

The damage was already done well before that. Individuals may not care that much (so Facebook is relatively safe), but businesses and governments have already been well aware that …

Yes. Violating peoples privacy for greed and profit alone. But that would exclude a lot more companies, many of which employ a lot of regular HN-users. Anything can be rationalized…

The hood? How about just the cinema? Or stay at home altogether and watch television.

Which countries are you talking about? No Western country I know of has an even remotely similar policy to the US on drugs. Most of them don't have >99% white population either btw…

I agree that the one of the USA's greatest strengths is in how it welcomes immigrants. However, when it comes to actually welcoming immigrants, there are many (Western) countries w…