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Not to downplay this result, after all this was achieved in Belgium, home of Brussels & EU institutions, which probably have great influence over local politics
by sebow 5y ago
Not to downplay this result, after all this was achieved in Belgium, home of Brussels & EU institutions, which probably have great influence over local politics. However it's still sad that we have to celebrate such small victories and we're not fighting towards establishing law that promote positive rights towards protecting privacy both against private and public entities.
We're on the back foot here, and the general public is not even aware of this.I used to think this was about technological literacy but i don't think that's the case: most people don't know what's going on, they don't necessarily care how it happens, they just need to know the end "result", which they don't.Another issue is "law language" being hard to swallow, and politicians can always wrap this language as a candy and pretend it's to : protect the children, against terrorism, or some other minuscule reason that won't justify the abuse and also logistically can't be enforced in an online medium.