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The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

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[-] RossoErcole@kbin.social 78 points 1 year ago

What the fuck, why did we give in?

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago
[-] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 19 points 1 year ago

With the recent bribery scandal, EU officials seem to come really cheap.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Have you seen what it takes to buy off a US politician? A few thousand is enough in some cases.

[-] RossoErcole@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn't as widespread as initially feared

[-] dumdum666@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

The European commission never was part of the solution but the problem. They just enjoy that the US can do the spying on EU citizens FOR them, while pretending that they wouldn’t install that kind of surveillance in Europe if they could.

If this is something you don’t want for the EU, maybe you should support NOYB

https://noyb.eu/en

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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