Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google
the most ironic part is that it's the US itself which is going to monitor compliance.<p>The entire problem for me is basically what Snowden revealed. In most democratic western countries a certain level of privacy is actually enshrined into law due to it's propensity for abuse. -- the US spying on Swedens behalf means that technically Sweden is not spying on Swedes.<p>The US having data on me by itself isn't a huge deal; there's no fucking way I will ever want to live there and factually: nobody is going to go sniffing into my life like in the movie "Enemy of the State" (though I suppose they could). However, the US sharing that information with Sweden <i>can</i> affect my life, because it's intentionally bypassing a protection that I am supposed to have in order to live in a free democratic system.<p>Failure to respect privacy lends itself to authoritarianism as people will self-censor if they feel they are not able to express themselves. Maybe I'm overstating this but it's a real concern of mine.