New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy
this has been addressed several times here on HN in the past and it&#x27;s still false.<p>No one removed digital privacy in EU.<p>The pirate party is desperate for attention among EU electors, it only has a total of 4 members, Breyer is the only German that was elected and the only one from a  western European country.<p>They need to get titles on newspapers, they&#x27;re good at doing it, but sometimes they go on a hyperbole.<p>Moreover: data retention is Breyer&#x27;s pet peeve, he built a career around it so he obviously talk constantly about it.<p>If some of you here ever spent time in the environment of the EU elected representatives, you&#x27;d know how much each one of them lobby for their agenda, all the time, non-stop.<p>To add some more details: this is not a private company spying on its users, this is a coalition  formed by 25 sovereign countries passing a law that harmonize the different legislation around searching for potentially unlawful digital communications.<p>But the article 5a) specifically states that<p>&gt; <i>Notwithstanding their legitimate objective, these activities constitute an interference with 
the fundamental rights to respect for private and family life and protection of personal 
data of all users. Any limitation to the fundamental right to respect for private and 
family life, including the confidentiality of communications, cannot be justified merely 
on the ground that certain technologies were previously deployed when the services 
concerned did not, from a legal perspective, constitute electronic communications 
services. Such interference is only possible under certain conditions. It needs to be 
provided for by law, respect the essence of the rights to private and family life and to the 
protection of personal data and, in compliance with the principle of proportionality, be 
necessary and genuinely meet objectives of general interest recognised by the Union or 
the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others as enshrined in Article 52 (1) of the 
Charter. Where such measures permanently involve a general and indiscriminate 
monitoring and analysis of communications of all users, they interfere with the right to 
confidentiality of communications.</i>