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Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What the fuck, why did we give in?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money, probably.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn't as widespread as initially feared

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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