Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ...
by avar on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:38PM
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The EU does not run a secret service or regulate the secret services of its member countries. You seem to be conflating EU trade policies and consumer protection, which is what's being discussed here, with the lack of consistency between whatever the EU is doing and what some European member countries are doing.
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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ...
by nickik on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:31PM
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Technically that is correct, but many of the agreements are handled not individually between countries. So the EU does act as important structure around these issues.
Also there is ongoing effort to make many of these laws standard for the whole EU. For example, the saving of all phone and internet metadate for multible month is now mandetory for all EU states.
In germany the suprme court shut the initiative down and germany had to pay fines to the EU. Last I remembered this idea has come back in germany and all the fight german hackers (CCC) and co have put up did not work.
There is a large number of things here, and many have long lectures add Chaos Communication Congress during the last 10 years.