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Between US and European Privacy, I prefer the US one
It’s common for privacy advocates to claim that European privacy rules are better than US ones. There is some truth to it, but consider this recent experience from my recent trip to Germany, the country where I grew up. I went to the sauna. (First German sauna in 18 years!) So here I’m sweating my…
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Germany: Law Requiring Data Retention “In Advance” Unconstitutional
They thought: why not simply requiring everybody to store logs, just in case a crime happens and the authorities would have a much easier time if they could access the logs when they needed them. The German constitutional court disagreed and requires that all such logs be deleted as soon as possible. Link to story…