"... Americans -- who usually prize free speech over privacy -- may find this
turn of events upsetting. European officials can now tell U.S.
businesses -- and Washington -- what information they can and cannot
disseminate about European citizens. Yet Americans’ reflexive distaste
for speech regulation should not blind them to realities. First, free
speech isn’t what it used to be: U.S. courts are increasingly redefining
it as a right to corporate bad behavior, striking down economic
regulation in the name of free speech. Second, Europeans have legitimate
human rights concerns. As technology expert Bruce Schneier has warned,
surveillance is the business model of the Internet, and Europeans have
no choice but to reshape this business model to accommodate individuals’
privacy rights, if those rights are to have any meaning..."
By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
full article at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141435/henry-farrell-and-abraham-newman/forget-me-not
By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
full article at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141435/henry-farrell-and-abraham-newman/forget-me-not
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