I don’t like this either, but I refuse to believe their real goal is ‘stealing’ peoples privacy’ (though you can’t really steal it because you can’t own someone else their privacy, but that’s another story). I think it is much more because of ignorance and naivety, unaware of the negative consequences. I can imagine there is a more benevolent lobby behind the scenes that would benefit from this, but EU isn’t oppresive enough to benefit from accessing private data from ‘regular’ people.
I don’t like this either, but I refuse to believe their real goal is ‘stealing’ peoples privacy’ (though you can’t really steal it because you can’t own someone else their privacy, but that’s another story). I think it is much more because of ignorance and naivety, unaware of the negative consequences. I can imagine there is a more benevolent lobby behind the scenes that would benefit from this, but EU isn’t oppresive enough to benefit from accessing private data from ‘regular’ people.