Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of citizens

Re:Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of ... by cies on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:35AM (#9464212)

I expect some small EU countries, probably East-European, have governments that are agile/smart enough to pull serious datacenter biz into their borders by passing sensible legislation and backing it up with actual (non-)action.

They are in many ways more sovereign then the larger and/or more economically developed EU nations. And they still have politicians that are concerned with (democratic) principles, instead of the two-faced puppets of plutocracy that we find waaaay to often in high public positions.

Go Slovakia!

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Re:Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of ... by xixixao on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:47AM (#9464246)

Clearly you don't live in the region. Since I've lived in both Central Europe and the UK and US, I can guarantee you that corruption blossoms (at least as judged by the public) everywhere the same.

P.S.: Slovakia is in Central, not Eastern Europe, and things get generally worse as you go East.

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Re:Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of ... by osense on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:52AM (#9464257)

It's a bit funny you should say that, because right now there is this huge case about the government tunneling a private corporation which was supposed to build highways in the country all around the news in Slovakia :)

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Re:Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of ... by zurn on Thursday April 30, 2015 @09:42AM (#9464968)

Transparency International publishes this thing so we don't need to go by gut feelings re. corruption as judged by the public:

http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results

Spoiler: Big differences across Europe

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Re:Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of ... by yellowapple on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:39PM (#9466843)

I love how Greenland's, like, some sort of anti-corruption candle on that map.

Also, I'm surprised that New Zealand, of all places, ranks higher than all but Denmark in cleanliness (and not surprised that North Korea and Somalia are tied in corruption).

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Re:Slovak Constitutional Court cancels mass surveillance of ... by wassyape on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:59PM (#9468173)

I want to note that this is corruption as judged by business people. So it may not be much better,

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