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Comment by conradk | Hacker News Reader

Ever since Brexit, I feel like the EU suddenly has plenty of good news for EU citizens (myself included, which makes me happy). No backdoors, free roaming and privacy law in 2018 most notably.

Anything else I might have missed that EU is doing to improve itself for citizens lately ?

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Part of me wonders whether that's deliberate. They realised there was a growing discontent with the union, Brexit brought about the realisation that countries would want to leave and now the MEPs and EU government officials and what not have realised that making the EU a positive thing to be part of is crucial to its future success.

Or cynically these, or similar, things were already tabled and the UK elite felt that would give the demos too much power/freedom and so decided to nip it in the bud, retaining a greater share of the local (to the UK) power structure. It must be much easier for the plutocrats to procur the political positions they want in the UK when [liberal] European politicians can't intefere.

With the exception of this news the other things OP mentioned have been being worked on for several years. It's just that anytime this stuff is passed member states are given a couple of years to implement it. Completely unrelated to Brexit.

UK residents are getting free roaming and GDPR anyway so you're not missing out on those.

It seems tricky to reconcile Theresa May's stance on encryption with this proposal though. A real shame in my opinion.

I hope you're right because it flies in the face of what every other government institution wants to do about crypto these days. What is it with the UK and their Orweillan nonsense? They need to get over the idea of backdoors that weaken crypto and just accept the fact that bad people do bad things--they seem to accept all the ISIS attacks in their country, so why not?

As far as the US goes, we have strong crypto because the system by which citizens come to be dominated is broken, and not for any other reason.

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