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Europe's New War on Privacy

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Re: Europe's New War on Privacy

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Post by transcriptase »

canyp wrote: post #11

Who are these fucks working to further mass surveillance when the people have already said 'no', twice?

Politicians and bureaucrats who lacked a strong father figure is my genuine unironic non-disparaging answer.

There are a great many people in this world who not only look to government for a sense of safety and direction, but seek to impose that paternalism on everyone else for “their own good”.

Re: Europe's New War on Privacy

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Post by throw-the-towel »

lifestyleguru wrote: post #10
saltysalt wrote: post #8

We need better leaders. Regards, a disappointed EU citizen.

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As a non-European who sometimes reads EU news, I think this is spot on. If you're a politician in Europe, the real goal is a position in your national government or parliament; the EU institutions are nothing more than a consolation prize, and so they're full of marginal opinions, also-ran politicians, disgraced former ministers, etc.

Re: Europe's New War on Privacy

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Post by [deleted] »

hollow-moe wrote: post #7
baiac wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if they did, what are they going to do about it?

True, it's sad to see activists needs to be on duty 24/7/365 and yet it's useless if they can't get normal people to follow them and spam the inbox of every single EU employee just to delay more whatever chains they're trying to pass.

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Re: Europe's New War on Privacy

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Post by canyp »

alex1138 wrote: post #13

So is GDPR the "good" part of it and we should just reject Chat Control? Or is GDPR also some sort of trojan horse that sounds great, but has downsides

The GDPR is not a trojan horse. Rather, it did too little, too late. There are no negatives to it that I am aware of.
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