> Europeans had been promised and conditioned that their countries would give a shit about privacy Do Europeans really care that much about privacy? As an outs

> Europeans had been promised and conditioned that their countries would give a shit about privacy Do Europeans really care that much about privacy? As an outsider, I don't see much fighting for privacy coming from Europe. > blatant commercial spyware operation like Google or Facebook What kind of regulation do you think would stop this "spyware" as you call it? Are you really going to restrict an internet firm from collecting user information with the user's consent and then selling that information? What regulation would you do? Something like "right to be forgotten" is the absolute worst direction to go. When I first heard about it, I knew the regulators were idiots. That is patently opposed to free expression.