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> 2010: Gov't went too far, surveillance seen as a greater threat than terrorism, swing pendulum back to privacy Did something happen in 2010 that reduced surv
by logifail 5y ago
> 2010: Gov't went too far, surveillance seen as a greater threat than terrorism, swing pendulum back to privacy
Did something happen in 2010 that reduced surveillance and strengthened privacy rights?
If so, I think I may have missed it.
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoYeah it's an odd claim since the Snowden revalations came out in IIRC 2011 and the government viciously attacked him in the press as they built a massive data center for surveillance on a scale never seen in history. The programs that Snowden exposed never got ended, no laws were ever passed preventing them from happening. All we got was some encrypted chat apps and I think it would be naive to believe the government can't read and search any facebook chat it wants, for example. Others are pointing out the 2021 "Gang violence in Europe" claim doesn't make sense either soo...
- anticristi 5y agoI specifically refer to these two events: Post 2010: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_global_surveillance_disclosures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_global_surveill... Which culminated in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu... Post 2021: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM At least in Sweden, there is ongoing discussion to legislate Police mass surveillance capability at the expense of individual freedom.