We need to wake the fuck up in the EU and start aggressively building European-based competitors to US tech companies that actually respect user privacy. A good area to start would be in the data storage industry, and perhaps social media too. Obviously, non Silicon Valley based startups face certain challenges[1], but we should at least try. It would arguably benefit US consumers also, if they could choose products that are designed to compete on privacy, a good example being Switzerland-based ProtonMail[2] (ok, non-EU but still).
I wasn't aware of Privacy Shield before now, but after reading a little bit about it[3], it reads like something that only gives a fig leaf of protection to EU citizens.
I wasn't aware of Privacy Shield before now, but after reading a little bit about it[3], it reads like something that only gives a fig leaf of protection to EU citizens.
[1] http://paulgraham.com/america.html
[2] https://protonmail.com/
[3] http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/citizen...