Don’t be so sure about the privacy part. Sure Europe so far seems to have had a privacy first policy, but that’s about to change in the coming days fightchatcontrol.eu
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bier@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Americans when you talk about gun control: NOOO mah freedom, I need it to protect myself from the government.
Americans when you tell them a private company is going to monitor and track every citizen, basically making a dystopian police state: I have nothing to hide so it’s fine.
I feel Europe is basically the other way around, less guns, but more privacy.
xcel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
bier@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Yeah we (Europeans) should also constantly keep fighting for our privacy and freedom. Thanks for sharing the link I’m glad the Netherlands is against it.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
eu is trying to turn into surveillance state too. There is some group that is CONSTANTLY pushing this chat control law, that would make encryption illegal, if i have understood it correctly. They have been held back for now, but they can just keep trying until they succeed.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Pffft. I would argue that the EU is about to get way worse then the US for privacy. Additionally, the UK is basically a branch of North Korea now, and Australia is basically China with less yellow people (and not even by much).
But in my Banana Republic, we have about 2,000 cameras, only around 30 work, and most of those are covered by branches because the cities don’t give a flying fuck about landscaping.
This world just keep getting funnier by the minute.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I was going to say have you looked at the shit the U.K. is doing lately, but sometimes I forget they voted their way into authoritarianism
I will say though, I’m very surprised there have been so many local governments within Europe that seem to be allowing this kind of shit.
www.dw.com/en/…/a-73497117
bier@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Yeah this is where the EU has a problem, because our intelligence agencies don’t really have great alternatives. For police we can probably just go without palantir
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But we went a long time without intelligence agencies having access to a giant data platform that provides every piece of data available for every single citizen at the push of a button.
Kinda seems like we don’t really need that for any reason other than to keep humanity on a short leash. Like if you need to look at my medical history, maybe you should have to take the time to go through a subpoena and other channels instead of just clicking a link below all my traffic tickets.