I don't think the GDPR came from an effort to surveil, but the world has changed in the last ten years and I do agree with this assessment today.
replyOne of the main rights enabled by the GDPR is to request to have data deleted, how would that facilitate surveillance?
replyAh yes the well known EU equivalent of the CIA, NSA
replyThe one that’s so secret it’s not in any of the treaties that the sovereign nations that comprise the EU signed up for and implemented in line with their own democratic processes
That agency
Meanwhile they struggle to put together a border patrol, but advanced pan European surveillance apparatus that isn’t run by the US. Yeah bro
I don't think they were necessarily thinking of one EU-wide agency, but the recent attacks on encryption including Chat Control which almost passed, a lot of EU countries voting for far-right governments. I do believe we still have it better than in the US wrt privacy (e.g. we don't have Flock cameras), but we need to be careful considering what EU governments have been doing.
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