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I'm seeing a lot of talk from Europeans about how they need European competitors to US companies to protect their data. The question I have to ask is: What ma
by phantom_oracle 10y ago
I'm seeing a lot of talk from Europeans about how they need European competitors to US companies to protect their data.
The question I have to ask is:
What makes you think your European competitor company won't start doing the data-harvesting and privacy-invading methods that their US counterparts do ?
Your answer might be: European laws and regulation
But then, just like in the US with GooFace, your European competitor will setup their lobby groups and get their preferred candidates into Europe-governance
- mickronome 10y agoThey (lobbyist) will obviously try, if they will succeed is up to the people of the EU countries, nothing is a given. So far the right to privacy is strong is several countries, others less so. But lobbyists appear to have a somewhat hard time to influence the entirety of EU, maybe with the exception of agriculture.