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WhatsApp, Gmail Roped Into Tougher EU Privacy Proposal (reuters.com)
Online messaging and email services such as WhatsApp, iMessage and Gmail will face tough new rules on how they can track users under a proposal presented by the European Union executive on Tuesday. From a report: The web players will have to guarantee the confidentiality of their customers' conversations and ask for their consent before tracking them online to serve them personalized ads. The proposal by the European Commission extends some rules that now only apply to telecom operators to web companies offering calls and messages using the internet, known as "Over-The-Top" (OTT) services, seeking to close a perceived regulatory gap between the telecoms industry and mainly U.S. Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
These are good rules example to play fair. Everybody need to start copying this law too. Big services need to guarantee the confidentiality of their customers' conversations
... Well, we'd love to comply with your potentially-lawful request and EU-search-warrant-equivalent, but in order to comply with your conversation confidentiality and privacy rules, we had to create encryption schemes designed from the very start to be unbreakable because we don't have the keys, nor a way to download them.
I suspect that one of these choices is incorrect. Correct.
If their handling of privacy is of a concern to a (potential) user, then the user can choose not to use such services any longer
Which service are they supposed to use? If there's no legally binding requirement for privacy which service can you trust?
As for the EU having better things to do yes they do but this is just BAU for a legislature to legislate
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Will we get banners "with visiting the site, you accept that everything you do is monitored and stored forever in the archives of google and the NSA"? Or do they actually ask for consent and accept a no?
Can We Track You
Yes | Delete Account
Privacy impacts every one.
Putting into perspective, fewer people are directly impacted by the crimes of your "millions of young angry immigrants in Europe" than are struck by lightening. So whereas finding the bad eggs is important, it isn't so important that the government shut down everything else until we round them all up and not tackle any other issues. A functional government can handle multiple things at a time.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
And as soon as Europe can only handle one problem at a time and has to work them down in sequential order you even have a topic!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We've already seen then commit numerous crimes, and even many serious and violent attacks that have resulted in the deaths of many innocent European citizens.
Citation needed.
I expect to be vilified for this, accused of shutting down the debate with that "citation needed" thing, but seriously, I couldn't care less. I reject the "post-factual" paradigm, I only accept debate based on actual facts, not fantasies nor distorted "could have been" stories.
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...fewer people are directly impacted by the crimes of your "millions of young angry immigrants in Europe" than are struck by lightening...
Bull shit.
You do know that most of those attacks are retaliation against the European military intervention agains ISIL, right? It's just war - the oldest game in the world. A kills B, B kills A.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
If only you are seeing the ads, are targeted ads an invasion of privacy?
You failed to establish a direct connection to a so-called "invasion". Most if not all of these attacks were perpetrated by people born in Europe.
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