> in Germany, data privacy is a basic human right This! Seriously, there's moral relativism and there's squabbling whether a human right "would be nice to have

> in Germany, data privacy is a basic human right This! Seriously, there's moral relativism and there's squabbling whether a human right "would be nice to have". They/we don't call it a human right lightly. It's to shine a spotlight on something very important that people otherwise don't realise. > This is not even touching on the fact that all the data these US companies mine of European citizens is also accessible by the NSA Well in a way, it does. Total surveillance by governments that openly admit you have zero rights in their eyes (as do their citizens, by the way, many times, even on HN ...) is one of the many terrible implications of the existence of these databases.