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The EU believes that privacy is a human right that everyone should have
Specially from the moment that political position can procure them financial rents, and a good pretext to stop the penetration of american companies in the economy.
And no, I am from a country inside the EU, and I am appalled at how the Brussels bureaucrats keep interfering in my relations with companies.
Agreed. Legislation should be clearly within the consitition, beyond any doubt. Back and forth with the constitutional tribunal pushes the boundaries of the constitution, and risks the tribunal conceding. In addition, the tribunal many times can't enforce violations of the spirit of the constitution, only blatant concrete breaches.
And remember, the constitution was an agreement signed by many groups, and every single clause of it represents the result of negotiations and struggles.
Changing the constitution means overriding that consensus.
The big question is what's the origin of these laws, given that people add little value themselves, as expressed by their own choices, to privacy and conservative data management?
I wonder if the EU citizens have special needs virtually every other citizen in the world doesn't have?
Or is the EU trying to establish a power position versus american companies?
I wish we asked the citizens, who do you want to trust your data to, Google, or the government?
Q: "Do you wish to exercise your right to be forgotten, in your relation with the government?"
A: "Yes, I don't want the government to know who I am"
They are kind of useful to levy billions of dollars from a handful of US companies. Laws are absurd, over complicated, and unevenly applied, but at least they finance the Brussels bureaucracy.
I wonder if the Catholic Church applies the laws of data protection. If they retain or delete the records of the approximately 80% of baptized population.
Too many bureaucrats and public servants are more occupied with growing their own power and protecting their space, than serving the public interest.
Yes, so many ignorant commments above.. hard to believe software developers are so well paid.
sure, and if there's half a dozen cases of autism in my family, it's because of what we eat (environment)
ASD: Autism spectrum disorder
Though I agree, in certain aspects is a super-power. In certain aspects it's a hampering disability. Semantics.
Autism is not an emotional cycle, it's not a circumstantial state
it's a disorder determined by genetics.
Either you got the genes, or you don't. Pretty binary.
Not a fan of how she's focusing her career on grievances and opening up on her grudges. Doesn't lead anywhere.
She's got talent to do more interesting things than complaining about the same over and over, in a dead end road.
Being international minded and being an anglosphere slave are completely orthogonal vectors
Pillaging what? What part of the welfare of Europeans can be explained by colonial pillaging?
Explaining differences between "North" and "South" through colonial exploitation is a traditional "coping mechanism" of those with inferiority complex.
The "South" benefited massively from transfers of technology from the North. The North benefited with ....?
"As expected" -> none of the youtube videos are available in my country (UK)
Let's say I want to see the last speech of Putin. To see his perspective and predict his next moves.
If I search on youtube, I will see the usual selection. BBC, Guardian, France24, DW, CNN
None will show his speech. Just images of him, while a journalist is rambling about how Western politicians reacted.
EU based: you can assume they filter search results.
Both because EU mandates this explicitly, and because there's a constant regulatory threat.
Freedom of speech isn't a credible principle in EU.