Europe's New War on Privacy

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.

I feel like this just fundamentally misunderstands Europe stand on privacy. Privacy is for citizens and companies to each other not something the government is subject to.

They will literally use the christmas holidays to pass this while people are spending time with their families and won't notice it.

> We value your privacy

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Oh, okay.

Who are these fucks working to further mass surveillance when the people have already said 'no', twice?

We need better leaders. Regards, a disappointed EU citizen.

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.

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