If you believe that an (American style) right to free speech overrides the right to individiual privacy, you are not a privacy campaigner. If you believe that

If you believe that an (American style) right to free speech overrides the right to individiual privacy, you are not a privacy campaigner. If you believe that Google and Facebook deserve full marks on any measure of privacy, and that deserves to be one of your key press releases, you are not a privacy campaigner. I empathise with these attitudes amongst proponents of free speech, yes, even though I don't agree. If Cory Doctorow supports this, I disagree with him but I am not outraged. However, I don't empathise here: not at all. Here, I am outraged. EFF put 'privacy' as one of their key areas of work and they are amongst the best known privacy campaign groups. When the European principles of Data Protection are upheld correctly (which rarely happens), the EFF creates a campaign which is against that ruling and in favour of Google's right to ignore the principles. They are speaking out against a fundamental of privacy: a basic principle regarding processing personal data. IMHO that is extremely anti-privacy. Both of these points significantly harm real privacy campaigning, from a group which places itself as one of the defenders of privacy. It is wrong.