New Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework Largely a Copy of “Privacy Shield”

I wish that all of our governments would just be honest and admit that they are involved in massive amounts of illegal data collection, that they really love spying on their own citizens because it gives them a lot more power, and that they will never do anything to protect the people if it might mean they have to give up even a little of that power.<p>Any discussion about what can be done to help protect people&#x27;s privacy and safety would go a lot smoother and progress faster if they&#x27;d skip all the theater and stopped pretending to take meaningful action. It&#x27;s a waste of everyone&#x27;s time.

Here in Europe, we are in a paradoxical downward spiral. And unfortunately, I see no end to it.<p>Understandably, we don&#x27;t want our citizens to be spied upon by the US and have all that data stored in the US.<p>Unfortunately, our &quot;solution&quot; is to create regulations which cause so much disadvantage to European tech companies, that we will see our citizens use even <i>more</i> US built tools in the future.<p>We already live in a mostly US-built internet. Throwing more and more regulations at it only cements this situation.<p>It seems there is nothing to get out of this rut. Looks like we will keep feeding the patient a treatment that worsens their condition.

So the current approach is just to implement the same law after it was deemed illegal with minor changes as it takes some time until the courts decide it is illegal? What a joke.

It seems there is no cost to those who repeatedly implement these illegal frameworks. A modest proposal: Jail-time of twice their duration (from implementation to judicial strikedown) for the EU negotiators involved.

It still doesn&#x27;t help EU businesses navigate the clash between the US Cloud Act and the EU&#x27;s GDPR, and seems more focused on appeasing US interests than safeguarding European rights.

fool me once, shame on you.<p>fool me twice, shame on me.<p>fool me thrice, ???<p>profit

&gt;the US still takes the view that only US persons are worthy of constitutional rights.<p>Lovely. That makes me feel all warm &amp; fuzzy about data privacy...<p>&#x2F;s