Comment by slop
7 hours ago
Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance but European countries are only interested in restricting the latter, and only when it doesn't get involved with preventing the former.
AmazonUK now requires ID and a selfie for "bladed items": https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/amazon-uk-now-requires-p...
The UK is ranked as one of the least free countries for digital freedom: https://eylenburg.github.io/countries.htm. Worse than India, Brazil, and Vietnam.
>Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance
I think in practice you'll find they go hand in hand together.
My brother in china once told me "In china, every company of a certain size has board seats filled by a representative of the party, to make sure corporate and government priorities align. In america, every company of a certain size sends lobbyists and sometimes runs candidates directly, to make sure corporate and government priorities align"
Concentration of power has many instances of convergent evolution, but societies trending dystopian is heavily correlated with concentration of power regardless of the shape it takes
That's what I said.
You know, when I want to know country rankings of digital freedoms, the very first place i go to is eylenburg.github.io
What are their sources for their statistics? "Source: eylenburg.github.io"
Ah.
You can click each box in the matrix and see the source for the acts in question from each country. What kind of quantitative measure are you expecting?