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The EU prepares ground for wider data retention – and VPN providers are among the targets (www.techradar.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/862346/the-eu-prepares-ground-for-wider-data-retention-and-vpn-providers-are-among-the-targets

With the Chat Control bill entering its final stage, the EU Council has been busy thinking about what a new data retention framework could look like.

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[–] 12 points 8 months ago

I'll say it again, we have to start pushing in the opposite direction. Some examples:

  • Make it a basic right to not have any data about you collected unless strictly necessary for the service delivered.
  • Forbid data brokers and any other attempts to combine data from different sources.
  • Criminalize data leaks. Financial or medical malpractice can land people in prison or cause them to lose jobs. So should privacy/data malpractice. Note: negligence is a form of malpractice. It should not be possible to get away with a slap on the wrist kind of fine after a major data breach.
  • Use the most extreme examples and statistics. Cambridge analytica was at the basis of a major attack on democracy using data from Facebook etc. Both Facebook, Cambridge analytica and benefitting parties should be held accountable in such a case.
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