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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by darklajid on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:15PM (#15966991)
He is a nutjob, always has been. And part of the stupidity seems to come with his job: Everyone sitting in that chair seems to believe that crime has to be reduced before all.

He asking for random access to every device is like the minister of agriculture asking for stable and higher milk prices. Expected.

He's unfortunately not just sputtering what he wants, he also wants stupid and dangerous things and likes to play the "think of the children" (his predecessor really liked that one), "fight the terrorism" cards.

Every country has loonies.

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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by gmueckl on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:14AM (#15968142)
The surprising part here is that every minister in that position started to spout the exact same nonsense, regardless of his party association. I really wonder how that is even possible.

I wish we would get a true liberal in that position soon, but our liberals are more concerned with deregulating companies than with citizen's rights.

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