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Angela Merkel Tells US Firms To Meet German Privacy Rules
judgecorp writes "Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has given her backing to proposed European privacy regulations and demanded that U.S. firms should meet German privacy rules. Merkel's stance comes as U.S. firms lobby against strict E.U. privacy proposals — but also follows revelations from Edward Snowden through German newspaper Der Spiegel, that the German authorities are helping the NSA spy on German citizens."
My reading on that is that *if* the new European Commission data privacy rules get passed, then Germany would expect US firms to abide by those rules *for citizens of the EU*. Seems quite reasonable, actually.
Basically it's just an extension of the fact that those same US firms already have to comply with existing privacy rules in various countries around the world. (I seem to recall Google having to blur faces and license plates when it launched Street View in Canada...)
This is Merkel. She's the epitome of leading from the back. First, she checks where the masses are running, then she overtakes them, puts herself on the front of the movement and screams "follow me!"
So by definition it takes her a while to find out where everyone is running, she really doesn't want to start early and follow... erh, lead an agenda that doesn't have enough voters behind it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The same government that brought us the "Bundestrojaner" (a trojan to be employed by law enforcement), that did pretty much anything to create Stasi 2.0 is now complaining about someone else doing it to them.
Mrs. Merkel, meet Mr. Kettle.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This still sounds better than what we have in the US, where the politicians close their eyes, run for awhile, then declare "This is what you asked for! No, I'm not going to come all of the way back there...do you realize how far I ran?"
I'll take a leader who leads people places they want to go over leaders that go wherever the hell they want any day of the week.
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
This is Merkel. She's the epitome of leading from the back. First, she checks where the masses are running, then she overtakes them, puts herself on the front of the movement and screams "follow me!"
So by definition it takes her a while to find out where everyone is running, she really doesn't want to start early and follow... erh, lead an agenda that doesn't have enough voters behind it.
This is basically what democracy should be about: doing what the people want.
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They can only do this while the US company has some sort of presence in Europe.
As internet speeds increase, the need for a physical presence will disappear.
Good luck getting Google or Facebook to comply if all their datacenters and business locations are only in the US.
Europeans will still want to use the services, so that will be interesting.
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Says you. .by at least one person
Not everyone agrees with you.
His name has been put up for the Nobel Peace Prize as of today,
As a US citizen, I applaud him, and think the traitors and criminals are holding gov't. offices.
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We are complying with GFR privacy rules and more, by directly spying on your citizens and ours, so you don't have to do it for us.
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if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
It's almost like she's doing what politicians are meant to be doing –representing their constituent's views!
Woe betide the politician who actually finds out what their constituents views are before deciding what to do!
Scum bag. Yes
How do you figure that part? There are certainly a number of more profitable things he could have done with this information instead, so he definitely acted selflessly (regardless of whether it was or was not legal and regardless whether you agree with his actions).
Nope, that is actually the definition of opportunistic behaviour. In a democracy, in theory we transfer power to people we have elected for certain goals and values. If I wanted a flag hanging in the wind, parties would become obsolete.
Excepept its usually morea bunch of sheep and a few wolves except the wolves work to convince the sheep the wolves are actually sheepdogs and if a few sheep were to disappear... the remaining sheep are told its because they didn'tlisten to the wolves, er sheepdogs.
Except that this is only the show.
The real politics of the current government are... let's just say they are so deep in certain lobby and interest group pockets, it isn't even funny anymore. If someone had done a satire about this ten years ago, I don't think anyone would have printed it because it would've sounded too outlandish and overdone.
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Parties are obsolete. We don't need 'sides' to get behind and we don't need some arbitrary party organization dictating the policies of those 'sides' to the elected officials belonging to those parties. Our elected officials were elected to represent the will of the will of the people and I don't believe many people would argue that this is what our politicians are currently doing or have done for quite some time. Two party politicians get elected based upon their campaign's stated goals and somehow everyone turns a blind eye when almost immediately the stated goals of their official change because he/she is 'on their side'.
Instead of a flag hanging in the wind, how about not supporting one of the big two? Instead, we might all have to actually pay attention to the politics of the candidates we elect and the candidates might actually have to act on what they say in order to even get elected...you know - how it should be according to the idealistic definition of democracy that you have. Seems more educated and enlightened a way to do things than to just know that you are a democrat or a republican and therefore that is just how you vote. In a society in which we intentionally launch objects and vehicles into space and control scientific research vessels remoly on OTHER PLANETS, shouldn't we all have to progress together instead of electing people who 'just know what to do' so that we can avoid the added stress of having to pay attention to what the fuck is going on? Er wait...that cuts into my (social trend following and facebook updating/beer drinking and nascar) time...nevermind, fuck that shit.
You end up like California where the public votes for no taxes and a completely government provided existence ... then wonders why it fails to work.
Direct democracy is a really stupid idea.
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Well, Merkel, too, prefers to run to where the money is. But she also knows that she doesn't just have 2 terms, and as long as she can stay in office there's always another time to cash in.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.