The funny part is that it's pretty clear that nothing has changed at all, but millions have been spent.
Privacy on the Internet is now a rearguard fight.
US, EU agree Privacy Shield
Privacy Shield, the US-EU agreement made necessary when the previous agreement collapsed after the Snowden surveillance revelations, has been finalised today. It reportedly contains concessions from the US, which will create an ombudsman who will provide European citizens with a means of redress if the American intelligence …
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Monday 27th June 2016 14:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Privacy on the Internet is now a rearguard fight.
Not in Europe, although the Brexit will also -unfortunately- eventually remove some of those pesky constraints from Teresa May and friends so a "Return of the RIPA - a bad, baad sequel that won't die" back on the cards at some point.
However, Privacy Shield is a political agreement. If you really want privacy, it is worth keeping in mind that Privacy Shield doesn't actually fix anything at all on the US end of the equation. This means that banks and other organisations can now resume using US services without breaching Data Protection laws (and it thus re-legitimises, for instance, the use of Gmail for business), but if you are truly interested in privacy (personal or for your customers), the US is hasn't been a good place to buy services from for comfortably over a decade, with no improvement in sight (plenty of cosmetics, though, mere tinkering in the margin).
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Monday 27th June 2016 21:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
Where's my shield, the constitution certainly is not anymore
As a proud American patriot, I am just so saddened by what I see our government doing to 'protect' us from the evils of the world (ISIS, child porn, marijuana). The constitution is just a piece of paper to these people, they can take away every freedom you have just because they are trying to 'protect' freedom.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
