• simple@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I just don’t get what caused such a radical change. The EU has been at the top of caring about consumer privacy, with countries like germany even creating sweet laws like censoring most buildings from google’s street view.

    Now suddenly they want to jeopardize encryption and create backdoors? What gives?

    • Kissaki@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      “they” don’t

      There are a lot of different views on it between people and EU institutions and they’re having difficulties finding a compromise. After all this time and reduction of scope and severity, the one they have now still can’t proceed because of how far apart they all are in their opinions, assessments, and positions.

      And now that they started questioning the driving person about their press-reported links to the big scanning software lobby orgs, with questionable results, even more people will become skeptical.

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        11 months ago

        because nobody knows how the internet works, so it’s scary. they are looking for houses to break into in streetview!!11 (satelite view is fine, though, because there you can only see the whole house and it’s surroundings which is nothing one can plan a burglary with…)