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8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data (www.politico.eu)
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[–] 76 points 5 months ago (8 children)

To be fair, I don't trust European companies with it either. As the saying goes: "Where there's a trough, there will be pigs." Want to keep your data safe? Keep it.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Yes, bit wary of these current trends that try to paint Europe as this holier than thou place where everyone only thinks about the polar bears and UBI, when the truth is we have plenty of capitalist sharks in our ranks that would be happy burning it all down for the next quarterly results.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    To be fair, we have the GDPR in Europe, which puts people at ease. However, this could be weakened or rid of entirely in order for the EU to become more "competitive" some day. Even the climate change goals of the EU has already been weakened so that we could catch up to the AI race. As sad as it is, it's just the realpolitik influencing decisions.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The EU keeps coming within inches of voting for making secure encryption impossible. Chat Control would have been worse for privacy than anything the US has.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Don't pretend like Chat Control is ever going to get through.

    Each time they are going to vote it down, it gets retracted and changed slightly so they can try again. And every time it gets voted down again.

    Politicians know that they would get out-voted in the next election if they go through with it.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    And every year new open mass surveillance worse than the UK and US attempts to be passed and barely fails.

    GDPR also doesn't mean shit if it is barely enforced against large companies or the fines aren't revenue-proportional.. Then it is just a cost of doing business.

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