The end of internet privacy: Europe hijacks American tech, and China benefits
The European Commission last week determined that Google Search must convey search data to competitors. In recent decades, as the regulatory code has swelled, users have received from the masters of continental technology policy myriad new choices, at least by bespoke European definitions of the word. But privacy and data security are not to be had by anyone, no matter how badly he might desire it.Advertisement The beneficiaries of this largesse may include, well, whoever possesses even a bit of the creativity and manpower of our chief geopolitical rivals.
- ▪The European Commission last week determined that Google Search must convey search data to competitors.
- ▪In recent decades, as the regulatory code has swelled, users have received from the masters of continental technology policy myriad new choices, at least by bespoke European definitions of the word.
- ▪But privacy and data security are not to be had by anyone, no matter how badly he might desire it.Advertisement The beneficiaries of this largesse may include, well, whoever possesses even a bit of the creativity and manpower of our chief g
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Some Google Search user in the European Union — call him Hans or Baptiste or Patrick — may soon find that intimate information about his life has arrived in the databases of the Chinese Communist Party.This European may fastidiously maintain his data-privacy hygiene and use every prophylactic available to the everyday user — but to no avail. The European Commission last week determined that Google Search must convey search data to competitors. These data are to be granular and extensive.
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