I’m kind of fascinated by the often simultaneously held beliefs of “America doesn’t make the world’s rules!” and “…EU does!” Countries can influence each other, sure, but if EU (US or Canada or Brazil) makes a law, it doesn’t apply to people not under those jurisdictions.
That's great if you never need to|want to travel.
What about the time you happen to end up in transit through an airport in a country where they've put you on their watchlist, they grab you airside and hold you for hours while they look at your devices....?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwal...
Hypotheticals in tech pretty much always come true in the end. And especially fast these days.
The world is gearing up for something, and personally I smell a global war and a reshuffling of world powers in my lifetime.
I don’t know and don’t care because I don’t have to. I live in a sovereign nation and I’m not obligated to follow their rules, any more than their citizens are obligated to follow mine. That’s how countries work.
If my country signs a treaty with them, then I have to obey that specific law. Absent that, I don’t.
If they had all the things I’d ever said in my life time they’d probably execute me. I speak my mind all the time. That’s what terrifies me though, because in 20 years time they could be running the show. So why would I want to make it so easy for them to know everything I have ever said, why would I want that data stored about me.
[1] https://www.thorn.org/solutions/for-platforms/
Their website lists oracle, slack, ancestry.com and others
Unless you can point out links between the Hungarian government (who announced they will re-table the directive in a few months) and such companies, I'd say Occam stays with the security services.
The chat scanning stuff isn't a realistic proposal either for its intended purpose or for spying, it's just grifting.
As indicated in that article, the UK kinda sucks, so, like, don’t go there. Whatever, they don’t have any good beaches anyway.
Sadly outside summer the weather is usually to bad for them to be worth enjoying, but in summer they're pretty nice.
For example, imagine you being arrested at Frankfurt airport because you posted something a year ago that falls under Strafgesetzbuch section 86a. You would need to review your entire post history going back years and compare it to the laws of every country you touch during your travels.
Doesn't this happen all the time? Wasn't David Irving repeatedly arrested and charged in many countries in continental Europe for things he said and wrote while abroad? (Not defending Irving's views, he's a noxious lying toad, but the principle here appears to be the same.)
Except the part where the CANZUK/US/EU blocs generally have reciprocal agreements and Interpol is perfectly empowered to enact international law inside of the US, as of 2009.
Choosing to take this stance in one of the Western Nations is foolish to an almost ignorant degree. If one of them feels you broke a big enough law, it's trivial (at best) to execute upon it.
Foreign national hackers are arrested all over the western world for offenses in other countries, for instance.
Extradition generally requires that the thing you're being extradited for would also a crime in the jurisdiction you're in.
For speech offences, this makes many foreign judgments unenforceable in the US due to the First Amendment, not to mention additional formal protections like the SPEECH Act.
Of course not but if an American company in the US caters to EU users with, for example, a localized site it does absolutely apply to them. Same the other way around. Just because you or your server are too small to matter doesn't mean it is irrelevant.
America doesn't make the world rules is often said when they create one set of rules for them and another for everyone else (US can have warships near china but if it was reversed we would have a new Cuban crisis) and when they create rules in places they have the most power to create international laws that fit their world view but not their enemies. In a perfect world the US would have zero power and zero say a meter outside its borders.
The reason gambling/child porn/fincrime/etc are enforced across national boundaries is that everyone (at least, in the western world) respects those laws and absolutely will extradite. Cookie laws, anti-encryption laws, anti-(adult)-porn laws are not like this.
Try ignoring the GDPR, they will get upset at you really quickly.
I like the GDPR. I comply with the local CCPA version. I’m not legally obligated to follow the GDPR though. I’m unaware of any agreement the US has with EU that puts me under its jurisdiction.
I’d simply delete them, no problem.