Are there other countries as active as France is concerning the enforcement of user privacy laws and data protection?
So what you gain in privacy vs private entities you lose with regards to the state having complete access to all of your online life.
234 people dying from terror attacks in France in the last 18 months is not a handful. Don't just dismiss their deaths so heartlessly as a "handful".
Shame on you.
I personally fear state powers much more than terrorism.
Or suicidal airline pilots...
Yes, it had a major impact on some people and their families and their pain is not to be dismissed lightly but on the other hand we should not give up our way of life to prevent these things from happening, especially when evidence supports that the new laws that are written after these events seem to do very little to actually further protect us.
While a little sensational I think the graphic in this article concerning the TSA in the US does a pretty decent job of summing up exactly what we've gotten from "enhanced" security in the US.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120405/04390118385/tsa-s...
Medias usually have this balance in mind when they cover common crime. This balance goes totally out of the door when it is terrorism.
Right, of course not.
It's not that you shouldn't care, it's that you should care in proportion to the seriousness. 234 death is fifteen days of 2014's driving fatalities.
Why do you hate the children so much that you don't care to save them except from movie-plot deaths?
plus in french example, probably motivating some local young unhappy psychopats in muslim communities to help "with the cause" described above. goal? maybe civil war in france? more budget from saudi elites on jihad? don't know here.
if you look at all these acts through this logic, they don't look that bad, and they are truly a drop in the ocean of civilization of 7 billion. last year, in africa alone, 400,000 people died just from malaria, which is a lousy way to die just because you are poor. i don't see much emotions about these topics, yet numbers are shocking, every single time.
Edit: In addition, feel free to review another popular construct the FBI created soon after 9-11 to fan the flames of 'Fear Theater' by this 'extremist' group... a couple street thugs who had no potency beyond an FBI agent and promises of guns & bombs. How many trials did it take to convict some of them? Fear Theater works.
Apart from that and from rewarding people by getting a well paid job inside it, CNIL is useless since 1978.
I remember listening to my law teacher in IT school back in 2000 telling us that CNIL doesn't have the budget nor the will to ensure anything.
Well now it's 2016 the commission has a 20M€ budget so they have to justify it by having some existence in the media.
for those who reads french: http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/659250-20110126-societe-la-c... https://www.data.gouv.fr/s/resources/budget-de-la-cnil-1/201...