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> Having strong privacy regulations in the EU could create a market for this kind of products. In some ways, the EU does have stronger data protection for it's
by patrickk 10y ago
> Having strong privacy regulations in the EU could create a market for this kind of products.
In some ways, the EU does have stronger data protection for it's citizens than the US. See for example the case where the ECJ ruled that the 'Safe Harbour' agreement was invalid because an Austrian law student[1][2] filed multiple complaints against Facebook's Dublin-based branch, essentially alleging that Facebook is a backdoor for US dragnet collection of EU citizens' (and others') data, which ultimately rendered the Safe Harbour invalid according to the ECJ.
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/max-schrems-took-facebook-to-court-europe_us_5615249ce4b0cf9984d7be0b http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/max-schrems-took-faceboo...
http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html
- masklinn 10y ago> In some ways, the EU does have stronger data protection for it's citizens than the US. The EU has stronger data protection for its citizens in all ways I can think of, in what ways does the US have stronger data protection?
- patrickk 10y agoI phrased it like that as I am not an expert on US privacy laws. But yes, certainly everything I've read over the past few years seems to indicate that the EU is way ahead of the US when it comes to protecting user privacy.