Europe's New War on Privacy

I can't read the full article, but I would like to remind everyone that this is not the first time the EU has done something like this.

In 2006 the EU passed the Data Retention Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

>According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (phone and internet connections) for a minimum of six months and at most twenty-four months, to be delivered on demand to police authorities.

This was actually law for 8 years until the Court of Justice of the EU found it to be violating fundamental rights and was declared invalid.

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hollow-moe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They will literally use the christmas holidays to pass this while people are spending time with their families and won't notice it.

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baiac an hour ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	hollow-moe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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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j00m an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> We value your privacy

> UnHerd and our 5403 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.

Oh, okay.

	▲	dgan an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"We value your privacy" means they ve put a pricetag on it

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canyp 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	transcriptase 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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”.

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saltysalt an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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lifestyleguru an hour ago | parent [-]

We are sending our scum to the EU parliament, a citizen of another EU country.

	▲	throw-the-towel 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	TeMPOraL 8 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The good ol' "we don't like the EU, so we'll sink ourselves and everyone else trying to sabotage it, just to prove everyone that EU was a bad idea".
	▲	marcyb5st 26 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I agree, a citizen of yet another EU country

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wg0 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

These carrier bureaucrates of EU will split the EU apart with their needless over legislation where member state's fascist far left and far right elements would want to be done with the union.

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alex1138 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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