Re: Strict privacy laws
@ LDS
"The problem is that some companies now feel so big and "international" they would like to act as if each country rules don't apply"
Sounds like the US gov, UK gov and the various conspirators worldwide including in europe. And in neither case is it right. But google provides a service which people choose to use and will pull out of hostile countries such as the news service in Spain. When acting perfectly legally google is the brand associated with a new tax to punish the employers by the huge monopoly- the UK gov. If a country thinks google is going too far they should adjust the law, and if google doesnt like the law they can leave. But it seems pointless to complain about googles privacy laws when the govs have no respect for them either.
As I said, we have more freedom to reject google than we do the gov because we choose to give them our data. If we want to reign in googles data demands then maybe we need to start looking at the greater offenders first.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
