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If Europeans are going to voluntarily allow their government to continuously scan all of their private data 24/7, can the rest of the world stop wasting time ca
by pembrook 3y ago
If Europeans are going to voluntarily allow their government to continuously scan all of their private data 24/7, can the rest of the world stop wasting time caring about GDPR please?
Moving every cloud service to be EU-hosted is going to look really stupid once it means you’ve just centralized all worlds data under a 24/7 foreign surveillance & espionage dragnet.
If I had to guess, I’d say the amount of money spent globally on lawyers re: GDPR must exceed the gross national product of Greece. For it to all backfire in this way would be quite humorous.
- Aerroon 3y agoUnfortunately, it's not the first time the EU had tried something like this either. >According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (phone and internet connections) for a minimum of six months and at most twenty-four months, to be delivered on demand to police authorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
- MrRolleyes 3y ago[dead]
- eigenket 3y agoYou should read some of the discussion on this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958473 This is largely being pushed by people related to an organisation called "Thorn". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958473#37962743 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958473#37962743 Thorn seems to be related to US tech companies. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Palantir, are all mentioned on the wayback machine version of their website as "tech taskforce" mebers. My interpretation would be that US tech is pushing this law because they know there is money to be made here (providing the scanning systems and collecting as much data as they can).