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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by 0xy on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:28AM (#35323159)
Because EU residents allowed them to continue to legislate themselves into irrelevancy. Nobody spoke against GDPR, which is an utterly toothless annoyance.

GDPR achieved nothing notable for data security and privacy, except by spamming cookie prompts and training users to accept anything.

The EU is an incompetent, lumbering, bureaucratic hellscape. It expanded FAR beyond its original remit of a customs union, and in turn created horrific legislation and usurped the power of national governments to centralize power in Brussels.

The EU used its newly seized power to crush all free speech, freedom of expression and dissent, along with explicitly campaigning for censorship. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/04/23/1094485542/eu-law-big-tech-ha...

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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by derefr on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:38AM (#35323225)
GDPR has forced many large companies to implement data retention policies enabling the (eventual) purge of data related to closed accounts. Before GDPR, account data was usually just kept around forever.
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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by feeela on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:53AM (#35324401)
Only tru for those european nations, who hadn't that in their national laws already.
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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by probably_wrong on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:45AM (#35324691)
I got Google to reinstate my locked account thanks to the GDPR. Conversely, my brother in a non-european country was locked out of his Apple account and is SOL because his country doesn't have the same protections I do and Apple can simply ignore him. And the fact that companies have to tell me how they are tracking me has been eye-opening.

As far as I'm concerned, GDPR is a great.

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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by anonyfox on Monday March 27, 2023 @08:09AM (#35325624)
The most important critique of GDPR is actually that its not enforced more often/strictly and that the maximum damages are _still_ too low to make many companies actually care.
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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by stametseater on Monday March 27, 2023 @10:29AM (#35327107)
Only techbros in the mass surveillance industry get bent out of shape over GDPR. I have never once heard a single person outside this description complain about it. It's a pet peeve for peeping programmers.
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