Fear and loathing in the UK adequacy decision - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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The Council of the European Union unanimously approved the United Kingdom (UK) draft adequacy decision. In an ideal world, this would indicate that the UK offers an adequate level of protection for personal data, and would signal their willingness to retain those standards. Unfortunately, reality tells a different story, that should be worrying for human rights advocates on both sides of the channel.
  • brombek
    3·
    3 years ago

    So this shows that EU is less powerful than Google, FB and others and literally is afraid of facing their practices… nice, good to know. Meanwhile UK is now an agent of overseas corporate power in Europe and will work towards eroding human rights and initiatives like GDPR.

    • brombek
      1·
      3 years ago

      Assuming the above there would be a significant interest in pushing Brexit for this corporations as this puts any EU pro-privacy initiatives in check which otherwise would threaten their core business models.