Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens
We need to wake the fuck up in the EU and start aggressively building European-based competitors to US tech companies that actually respect user privacy. A good area to start would be in the data storage industry, and perhaps social media too. Obviously, non Silicon Valley based startups face certain challenges[1], but we should at least <i>try</i>. It would arguably benefit US consumers also, if they could choose products that are designed to compete on privacy, a good example being Switzerland-based ProtonMail[2] (ok, non-EU but still).<p>I wasn't aware of Privacy Shield before now, but after reading a little bit about it[3], it reads like something that only gives a fig leaf of protection to EU citizens.<p>[1] <a href="http://paulgraham.com/america.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/america.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https://protonmail.com/" rel="nofollow">https://protonmail.com/</a><p>[3] <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/citizens-guide_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/citizen...</a>