What the fuck, why did we give in?
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Money, probably.
With the recent bribery scandal, EU officials seem to come really cheap.
Have you seen what it takes to buy off a US politician? A few thousand is enough in some cases.
It wasn't as widespread as initially feared
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
Definitely, very good initiative here: https://noyb.eu/en/european-commission-gives-eu-us-data-transfers-third-round-cjeu
Sooooo.... the whole GDPR, including forcing USA companies to have servers in Europe, meant to protect Europeans from "laws" in the USA and other shady parts of the world...
Oh wait.... MONEYZZZZZ
Will this actually stand or will it be struck down in court like Privacy Shield?
Schrems does not think it will stand: European Commission gives EU-US data transfers third round at CJEU.
I guess it depends on how this "Data Protection Review Court" actually functions in practice. What is written on paper doesn't seem to really matter much to US agencies so we'll see how strong these safeguards actually are.
Nevertheless, it's good to see that the new agreement is finally in place at least. We've had this legal vacuum for years now and it was completely unsustainable in the long run. Sans a complete legal overhaul of the nonexistent privacy laws in the US (hah good luck with that), this is probably the best we could hope for now.
Money always wins in the end I see. Fucking sellout.
No! Don't do this Europe. Keep data away from Facebook and Google. Protect Europe from them.
Another step towards a horrible future.
And then people don't like to hear that at this point Europe are just a bunch of vassal estates to the USA. They could have fought against it and become more independent, but didn't and now it's too late.