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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God am I glad I don’t live in the US

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No worries, the lucky few of us living in the UK are facing the same thing, just under a different name -- 'The Investigatory Powers Act'. Don't you just love surveillance under the pretence of doing something just?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly wonder if Germany would do this. The Germans have always been heavily for data privacy and foreign companies usually hate working with us, due to the German data privacy laws.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They will do it and then their constitutional court will declare it unconstitutional and then they will do it again. Basically game of the last 2 decades. eventually they’ll manage to stuff the court