The names of the people pushing for these initiatives need to be revealed. They keep doing it with impunity, and in the shadows. We need to know the politicians, and the lobby.

They really keep trying to ratchet further and further to taking full control over what should be private, with all the negative consequences it has for democracy.

We should push ratcheting in the opposite direction. Start with various levels of crazy and sensible ideas. Make privacy a human right anchored in law with no exceptions, it should not even be possible to propose laws that weaken privacy. Make it a punishable crime to come even close to violaring privacy, put the CEOs and people making the technical implementations in jail. And require encryption to the point that if data is leaked, the data hoster is guilty if the data is readable. If any data is leaked, then the data of the leaker becomes public property. Etc.

If they can go crazy with the proposals to remove any semblance of privacy, then backtrack a little, but not completely, when there’s opposition, then so can we.

Thank you for sharing! I think they’ll never give up ;a;