> As a European citizen I do not trust entities located in the US to not abuse my private data ever since the patriot act.

EU is working on mandating scans of all your private encrypted messages right now. EU data protection is marketing for the gullible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707719

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jeroenhd a day ago | parent | next [-]

A small group of people from the EU parliament is going against the wishes of the EU commission in an attempt to force through a change that contains a subsection of the bill that tries to mandate E2EE scanning.

The way this is going is definitely worrying, but what you're saying is disingenous at best.

Furthermore, even if this passes somehow, that doesn't change the fact that the US remains an unreliable partner. Now we have two governments scouring through your data instead of one.

	▲	nickslaughter02 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> A small group of people from the EU parliament is going against the wishes of the EU commission in an attempt to force through a change that contains a subsection of the bill that tries to mandate E2EE scanning What are you talking about? It is the EU Commission's wish together with EPP to scan everything including E2EE, photos, videos. The original proposal even had a section about analyzing voice calls.

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dgellow a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The EU isn’t a single entity, it’s a whole ecosystem of actors pushing their own agenda. The parliament, which represents the people, has been very clearly opposed to chat control

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atoav 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No news to me. Reactionary authoritarians are a threat to freedom everywhere.