It's important to note that there are different forces in Europe. There's those guys who are looking for any possible excuse to encroach on the citizens' rights to privacy but at the same time there's a strong presence of consumer & data protection advocacy activists.
In all honesty, before I give up on my privacy rights out of the very potential possibility that it might prevent one or two crimes (Even against myself) I'd rather die😂😂
If we're not careful EU is turning into USA 2.0, only complete with a patriot act equivalent.
I have been witnessing the gradual appropriation of the word patriarchy by adherents of certain political leanings over the last years and no, y'all tend to use this term incorrectly.
The word patriarchy has its origins in ethnology/anthropology and refers to how societies are organized. There are patriarchal societies and matriarchal societies for example. ''THE patriarchy'' that you guys like to talk about (either as a boogeyman for the left or to spite the left foe the right) does simply not exist.
Honestly, the worst part of it is that there are a lot of lawmakers and activists in the EU that really want to protect consumers and their data. Seeing assholes take advantage of that kindness to try to use those same laws/concepts to attack the public is so infuriating.
Currently, the EU is clearly trying to attack online speech in order to aid Israel's genocide of Palestine.
This is another Vietnam/Iraq moment, where everyone saying "uhhhhh, why are we just paying to make things worse?" in the media gets vilified.
US has had the spy tools to prevent the vast majority of the mass shootings in the country for the last two decades, and has just let them happen for political purposes.
I hope you have your freedoms protected from these liars. We're struggling over here, too.