Laws that are open to interpretation with drastic consequences if it's interpreted against your favour pose unacceptable risk to business investors and stifle innovation.
The "business investors" and "innovators" can take this kind of business elsewhere.
This kind of talk where regulators are assaulted by free marketeers and freedom fighters is unacceptable here.
Let us not misinterpret business people as "innovators", if what they do is not net positive for the society, they do not belong here.
[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/fr/press-room/20240308IP...
The understanding is that interpreting laws leads to bias, partiality, and injustice; while following the letter of the law equally in each situation is the most just approach.
I lived in Lithuania for a while and at the time, there was a big national debate about how “family” should be defined in laws — what people it can and can’t include.
So yes — a lot of emphasis is put on verbose definitions in literalist legal texts. And very very verbose explanations of many edge cases, too,
I know first hand it will be very hard to read Lithuanian legal texts for someone who is not a native speaker of the language, and even for natives it’s a challenge. So you could instead google “literalist legal systems”, and I believe you’ll find at least some examples/more context in English somewhere.
You can't have nice things, but on the bright side Google/Apple/Facebook won't know what you had for dinner.
Now give us your whole financial transaction and travel history, so we can share it with the US, a hostile country, citizen!
Yes, it only affects airlines that have connections to the US. But if I book Lufthansa from Frankfurt to Tokyo, the PNR will still be sent to the US, for Lufthansa has connections to the US.
Yes, there are 'safeguards' in there, to shackle the DHS to be responsible with the data - but who seriously thinks the data, once in US hands, is used responsibly and only for the matters outlined in the treaty? The US has been less of a reliable partner for decades now.
Oh, right. They won't do that for financial transactions, right? Right?
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/agreement...
Any proof of that claim? The agreement specifically mentions flights between the EU and the US, so any departure from that (like the scenario you describe) is unlawful, according to my own understanding.
Article 2.1 clearly states it is applicable to all EU airlines *operating* flights to or from the US. That does not mean they ONLY have to provide PNR FOR those flights
Article 3 speaks about "Data in their (the airlines) reservation systems". There's no limitation to only US-related flights.
The specific mention of flights to and from the US you are likely refer to is in the preamble, referencing a law the US set up prior.
Both document clearly define the uses cases that are applicable for the data sharing, and the second document linked by you also explicitly states that US has to put same effort to provide same capabilities to EU as well.
We elected a President who tried to lead an armed insurrection but we'll never press criminal charges because we elected him President again.
Sorry, but anything the EU has ever done pales in comparison with that.
They hope the paperwork will be complete by 2053, which will allow an EU president to, hopefully, attempt some kind of coup (if everything is filled out correctly) sometime before 2060.
Then there's the nontrivial number of especially local US news sources which now give me a cheerful "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" error code.
Then there's the outright stupid stuff - like lightbulbs that do not cost 15 euros a piece (to save 'energy'), or drinking straws that do not dissolve in my coke within the first minute (to avoid 'disposable plastics'). There are hundreds of examples like that.
The EU is a regulation juggernaut, and is making the world an actively worse place for everyone globally. See "Cookie Banners".
I understood he was referring to incandescent light bulbs, which have been largely regulated out of the market. So you now need to get an "Edison light bulb" which circumvenes regulation but costs significantly more.
The problem here is that they tell you: - We're building renewables which deliver super clean and cheap energy - CO2 is the root of all evil
Then, they force you to use an LED which uses less energy (which is clean and cheap, no?) but contains a lot more chemicals and rare earths, so in a number of ways seems less "environmentally friendly". This seems contradictory and half-assed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
> A ban covering most general service incandescent lamps took effect in the United States in 2023
So you can't even buy them in the US anymore, either. And cheap LEDs are available everywhere, with many color temperatures to choose from.
Light temperature is one thing, but the spectrum is very different (which is essentially how it saves energy, almost all radiation emitted is a narrow band of visible light whereas an incandescent lamp produces a blackbody spectrum with a lot of radiation emitted in the infrared).
Also I notice a lot of color banding (not sure if that's the right term) with many cheap LEDs. I observe the same or at least a very similar phenomenon when watching DLP cinema projections.
So the EU should not control where your data is processed? You can't claim in one comment to be bummed about data exchanges between the EU and the US (which you do), and then not understand why there are regulations in place that are slowing down the roll-out of things like Apple Intelligence, for your benefit.
1. I am giving my data freely and because of my own decision to an organization I trust and
2. The state is taking my data by force of law to share it with an inherently untrustworthy organization.
Nevermind the fact that you obviously come from a previliged position if you think that money is all that's important. You're blinded.
It is the utter bane if "move fast and break things", and I'm so glad to have it.
I will never understand the submissive disposition of Americans to billionaires who sell them out. They are all about being rugged Cow Boys while smashing systems that foster their own well-being. It's like their pathology to be independent makes them shoot at their own feet. Utterly baffling.
Early adopters signed contracts with companies that provided shitty WiFi at high prices for a long time. A $500 hotel would have $30/night connections that were slow, while the Courtyard Marriott had it for free.
It's also quite clear that places without strong privacy protections like the US are developing into dystopian hellscapes.