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I just don't get what caused such a radical change. The EU has been at the top of caring about consumer privacy, with countries like germany even creating sweet laws like censoring most buildings from google's street view.
Now suddenly they want to jeopardize encryption and create backdoors? What gives?
Conservatives.
Liberals
Dwarves
and my bow!
and my axe!
"they" don't
There are a lot of different views on it between people and EU institutions and they're having difficulties finding a compromise. After all this time and reduction of scope and severity, the one they have now still can't proceed because of how far apart they all are in their opinions, assessments, and positions.
And now that they started questioning the driving person about their press-reported links to the big scanning software lobby orgs, with questionable results, even more people will become skeptical.
Nailed it.
There are different groups who want different things.
In general, most politicians are amoral bastards, just looking out for their own angle, which means placating different interest groups.
Not all politicians, and not all to the worst degree. Some a little captured by special interest, some a lot captured.
Some politicians (damn few) are somewhat decent, but even they can't push against the tide of their so-called "peers".
And then you have voters, many are easily swayed by "think about the children" and have little knowledge of how any of this works.
Kind of a perfect storm of crap.
And don't anyone think this is a UK problem. Politicians everywhere push this garbage as much as they can in their system.
I want to say "climate change" and "wealth inequality". Those are leading to instability and displacement of people. When those that have little or lost the little they had emigrate or flee to a relatively wealthy place with large inequality, the local population's richest have a new boogieman. That gets populists elected that make use of a lot of identity politics, with inflammatory and simplistic language. Non-populists see how well that works and feel like they require to employ the same tactics.
Calling for "security" and "protecting the children" are big trigger points for a large section of the society. They can thus frame themselves as "defenders of good" by doing things supposedly in favor of those things.
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What's the reasoning for censoring buildings from street view??
because nobody knows how the internet works, so it's scary. they are looking for houses to break into in streetview!!11 (satelite view is fine, though, because there you can only see the whole house and it's surroundings which is nothing one can plan a burglary with...)
Also there's a lot of architechts who fancy themselves to be Artists, and want nothing to do with having people living in and/or using and debasing their Art.
Nor do they want random people looking at it without paying homage to the exalted being that is the Artist.