[HN Gopher] Europe's New War on Privacy
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       Europe's New War on Privacy
        
       Author : joecobb
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2025-11-29 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (unherd.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (unherd.com)
        
       | wg0 wrote:
       | These carrier bureaucrates of EU will split the EU apart with
       | their needless over legislation where member state's fascist far
       | left and far right elements would want to be done with the union.
        
       | j00m wrote:
       | > We value your privacy
       | 
       | > UnHerd and our 5403 technology partners ask you to consent to
       | the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on
       | your device.
       | 
       | Oh, okay.
        
         | dgan wrote:
         | "We value your privacy" means they ve put a pricetag on it
        
       | hollow-moe wrote:
       | They will literally use the christmas holidays to pass this while
       | people are spending time with their families and won't notice it.
        
         | baiac wrote:
         | Even if they did, what are they going to do about it?
        
           | hollow-moe wrote:
           | True, it's sad to see activists needs to be on duty 24/7/365
           | and yet it's useless if they can't get normal people to
           | follow them and spam the inbox of every single EU employee
           | just to delay more whatever chains they're trying to pass.
        
       | Aerroon wrote:
       | I can't read the full article, but I would like to remind
       | everyone that this is not the first time the EU has done
       | something like this.
       | 
       | In 2006 the EU passed the Data Retention Directive:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
       | 
       | > _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._
       | 
       | This was actually law for 8 years until the Court of Justice of
       | the EU found it to be violating fundamental rights and was
       | declared invalid.
        
       | saltysalt wrote:
       | We need better leaders. Regards, a disappointed EU citizen.
        
         | lifestyleguru wrote:
         | We are sending our scum to the EU parliament, a citizen of
         | another EU country.
        
           | marcyb5st wrote:
           | I agree, a citizen of yet another EU country
        
           | TeMPOraL wrote:
           | The good ol' "we don't like the EU, so we'll sink ourselves
           | and everyone else trying to sabotage it, just to prove
           | everyone that EU was a bad idea".
        
       | canyp wrote:
       | Who are these fucks working to further mass surveillance when the
       | people have already said 'no', twice?
        
         | transcriptase wrote:
         | Politicians and bureaucrats who lacked a strong father figure
         | is my genuine unironic non-disparaging answer.
         | 
         | There are a great many people in this world who not only look
         | to government for a sense of safety and direction, but seek to
         | impose that paternalism on everyone else for "their own good".
        
       | alex1138 wrote:
       | So is GDPR the "good" part of it and we should just reject Chat
       | Control? Or is GDPR also some sort of trojan horse that sounds
       | great, but has downsides
        
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