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The US will have to change its laws. There's just no way to comply with the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights while allowing mass surveillance to be conducted
by M2Ys4U 11y ago
The US will have to change its laws. There's just no way to comply with the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights while allowing mass surveillance to be conducted by the NSA and other US government bodies.
- anonymousab 11y ago>There's just no way to comply with the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights It seems that the more likely route would involve pressuring the EU's judicial systems to interpret that charter more favorably.
- Scoundreller 11y agoI think I figured out why Britain's politicians want to leave the EU so badly...
- ionised 11y agoAnd why I'll be leaving the UK if that ever happens.
- smcl 11y agoThat's painting with a fairly broad brush. A tiny minority party - UKIP - have made it their main objective. Only small factions within party in power - the Conservatives - have been vocally in favour of leaving the EU. There's pockets of the people who seem to want to leave the EU, but I suspect that's more driven by xenophobia/racism than privacy legislation.
- toyg 11y ago> that's more driven by xenophobia/racism than privacy legislation. You're looking at it backwards: established interests that hate scrutiny (mostly on "socialist" work regulations, product quality regulations etc) are driving xenophobic sentiment to engineer an EU exit that would ensure they're firmly back in the driving seat at the national level. It's similar to the US "southern strategy" that recruited religious folks to the cause of Big Business, separating them from their working-class interests. "Divide and rule" is still one of the best strategies you can employ.
- gscott 11y agoOfficially mass surveillance isn't admitted by the NSA and other government bodies. They suggest they only do legal surveillance that has to be approved by the fisa court. Of course everything that I just said is pure bs.