> [...] this generation of old and frightful people finally resigns [...]
If you thought that replacing these people with the generation than invented "trigger warnings", and demands removal/cancelling of anything remotely uncomfortable would be the end of mass surveillance, then you're going to be disappointed. I think we will get much more instead.
This meme needs to die of old people not understanding tech and privacy ramifications. Privacy is a concern for all generations, and you only have to look at history to know privacy’s importance. (Stasi anyone?). Branding all older generations as not ‘with it’ is ageist and counterproductive. If any generation is more concerned about digital rights and freedom it’s the older generation. Kids these days are feeding from the trough of surveillance capitalism and are sleepwalking into an Orwellian nightmare.
Saying that about young people is also ageism
The real battle is class, the capital owning class wants to control the working class and that's why we get these laws
They spread propaganda and write legislation through think tanks in the US, I can only assume there are similar mechanisms in the EU
> The EU is really having a rule of law problem here
pretty much sums up the situation. But judges can only do so much, although not in a sense the Danish minister uttered in his confusion. Judges interpret the law and we regularly get new sets of laws that allow for more and more mass surveillance. So at one point civil liberties in the EU and Europe will fail like they so often did in the past.
Sadly, the strategy to wait until this generation of old and frightful people finally resigns doesn't seem to work either. I cannot explain this shared pathological myopia. Trauma? Idiocy? Special interests?
One thing is very clear, the EU does not deserve a inch of optimism and its governments decided to lead by example and explain why that is the case.