Isn't that just the recent highly controversial Chat Control push? Generally speaking, the EU has some quite strong privacy protections relative to the US.

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Forgeties79 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Privacy in certain domains is better protected than others.

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qeternity a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> Generally speaking, the EU has some quite strong privacy protections relative to the US.

Please, like what? GDPR?

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isbvhodnvemrwvn a day ago | parent | next [-]

Let's just say you won't find my name, address, my yearbook pictures, history of where I lived, anywhere on the internet. I can quite easily get this information for all distant cousins in the US. And that has been the case long before GDPR was a thing. The culture around privacy is simply different.

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qeternity a day ago | parent [-]

Except that the government has all of this information and much more.

And you have no protections from the "much more" bits, unlike in the US.

It's incredible that Europeans today think the culture of privacy is different. American privacy protections (from the government) were born out of European flaws.

The difference is that Europeans love the nanny state regulating private enterprise (GDPR) but never pointing that same effort against itself.

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		This being written by a citizen of the country that has Palantir and Flock cameras being installed all over the place is incredibly funny.
	▲	cccbbbaaa 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		GDPR also applies to the government.

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spixy a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, GDPR.