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Sounds too good to be true. Why is the EU so concerned about privacy when most individual countries dont care.
Not really a question, more of a statement. The U.S., China, even UK, and probably more have incredibly poor privacy laws, and keep aiming to strip even more privacy away. I'm just curious whats different about the EU that makes them do something actually good for people.
@NocturnalMorning @war it's likely that the EU have enough power, acting for in excess of 500m ppl, to stand up to big tech. The UK also have subscribed to data privacy and rights as part of their adoption of GDPR principles, though prob with some caveats. Creating territorial legislation will shake up how big tech works in the globally. I think this is why Meta have stated their intention of being decentralised. They have to, if they want to continue to operate within EU/UK territories.