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mc32yesterday at 4:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

It feels to me Europe and the UK, in the western world, are further ahead on the legal road to surveillance than the US.


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Sohcahtoa82yesterday at 4:52 PM

Someone pointed out something to me and it's really struck a chord with me.

In the USA, we hate the government collecting information on us, but shrug our shoulders when corporations do it.

In Europe, it's the exact opposite. They created GDPR to restrict how corporations collect and share data about you, but they shrug their shoulders at government doing it.

Obviously, this is incredibly reductive and over-simplified, but the general idea of it feels pretty true.

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ls612yesterday at 4:44 PM

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