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It seems the EU has better privacy laws, but it would be foolish to think that there isn't any surveillance and spying being done here.
by MisterWebz 13y ago
It seems the EU has better privacy laws, but it would be foolish to think that there isn't any surveillance and spying being done here.
- jsonne 13y agoThey don't in the slightest. Check out Sweden's FRA laws. They're even more invasive than PRISM.
- MisterWebz 13y agoIn school I've been taught that companies (and government entities?) are not allowed to keep your private information stored unless they have a valid reason for keeping it, and if they do, then you're allowed to know what they're storing and have the right to ask them to delete the data. I remember reading an article that was posted here on HN about someone demanding Facebook to reveal the personal information they were storing of him, because IIRC, one of Facebook's servers is located in Europe, so they had to abide by EU's privacy laws. He eventually got a CD containing his personal info. It contained very limited data and not as much as I believe that they would have collected, but it shows that companies in Europe have to follow these laws.
- jsonne 13y agoI guess I suppose that by privacy laws you meant something different than simply the ability to be given the information collected about you. I was also coming at it from a governmental aspect versus private as well.