In e.g. Belgium, privacy law is very strict and enforced for local corporation. When I read on hacker news how e.g. USA Healthcare providers dig up the old history of their clients to find a reason not to pay, I am horrified. Any West-European privacy regulator would have ended that kind of behavior long before things got this far. Probably just sending a strong 'We dont like this' message without actually starting a lawsuit would do the job.
Don't forget how history hammered into the population how people died and suffered because powerful groups managed to built lists of facts. Think WWII and the jews. Or the Napoleonitic conscription lists.
So if people with this background get confronted with the American Way, they don't like this. Here is a wrong that should be righted is the opinion.
For now, there are no lawsuits I am aware of. If both the large tech companies and the USA government behave reasonably well, I don't expect a big one either. The governmental regulators are simply not ready for them yet, as the GDPR had a big impact on them as well. And they never like having to pay for a drawn-out legal battle.
In e.g. Belgium, privacy law is very strict and enforced for local corporation. When I read on hacker news how e.g. USA Healthcare providers dig up the old history of their clients to find a reason not to pay, I am horrified. Any West-European privacy regulator would have ended that kind of behavior long before things got this far. Probably just sending a strong 'We dont like this' message without actually starting a lawsuit would do the job.
Don't forget how history hammered into the population how people died and suffered because powerful groups managed to built lists of facts. Think WWII and the jews. Or the Napoleonitic conscription lists.
So if people with this background get confronted with the American Way, they don't like this. Here is a wrong that should be righted is the opinion.
For now, there are no lawsuits I am aware of. If both the large tech companies and the USA government behave reasonably well, I don't expect a big one either. The governmental regulators are simply not ready for them yet, as the GDPR had a big impact on them as well. And they never like having to pay for a drawn-out legal battle.