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Re:Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens by draven on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:38AM (#13498953)
I'm privacy-conscious, but know of a lot of people outside the tech industry who aren't. I'd welcome products which respect my privacy but I don't think this would be enough a difference to make people or companies choose them over established players.

Having strong privacy regulations in the EU could create a market for this kind of products.

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Re:Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens by patrickk on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:18AM (#13499096)
> Having strong privacy regulations in the EU could create a market for this kind of products.

In some ways, the EU does have stronger data protection for it's citizens than the US. See for example the case where the ECJ ruled that the 'Safe Harbour' agreement was invalid because an Austrian law student[1][2] filed multiple complaints against Facebook's Dublin-based branch, essentially alleging that Facebook is a backdoor for US dragnet collection of EU citizens' (and others') data, which ultimately rendered the Safe Harbour invalid according to the ECJ.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/max-schrems-took-faceboo...

http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

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Re:Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens by masklinn on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:24AM (#13499109)
> In some ways, the EU does have stronger data protection for it's citizens than the US.

The EU has stronger data protection for its citizens in all ways I can think of, in what ways does the US have stronger data protection?

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Re:Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens by patrickk on Friday January 27, 2017 @07:02AM (#13499248)
I phrased it like that as I am not an expert on US privacy laws. But yes, certainly everything I've read over the past few years seems to indicate that the EU is way ahead of the US when it comes to protecting user privacy.
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