Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone
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The end of internet privacy: Europe hijacks American tech and China benefits
Some Google Search user in the European Union — call him Hans or Baptiste or Patrick — may soon find that intimate information about his life has arrived in the databases of the Chinese Communist Party. This European may fastidiously maintain his data-privacy hygiene and use every prophylactic available to the everyday user — but to no avail. The European Commission last week determined that Google Search must convey search data to competitors. …
The temporary permission to scan messages is valid until April 2028.
Digital rights organizations are sounding the alarm over EU law that opens up "mass surveillance".
Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone
Brussels has developed a curious theory of digital privacy. Anonymous search queries need audits, screening, and a security cordon. Your messages, microphone, and screen can make do with a checkbox. That is the logic running through two decisions the European Commission adopted last week involving the same company, under the same law, on the same day. Yet read side by side, they seem to come from different legal universes. The first measure, i…
The controversial EU-chat control is about to return. Representatives of the Member States agreed on a temporary exception to European data protection rules. Majority, on the other hand, that large Internet companies should be allowed to search private news again automatically, officially only according to representations of sexual child abuse. Two weeks ago, the EU Parliament had already cleared the way for this – in highly questionable circums…
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