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[tippytop]

Be careful what you wish for, Google is now one of the biggest spenders in Washington [1], $18.2 million on lobbying in 2012. Needless to say, big business in the tech sector will have plenty of say in the future (if that was ever a worry), but, as always, civil liberties will continually need to be fought for.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4394234/google-eight-bigges...

[bowlofpetunias → tippytop]

And what does Google lobby for? Amongst other things, getting the EU to relax it's privacy protections.

Yeah, those are really the guys I want on my side when it comes to fighting for civil liberties...

[yuhong → bowlofpetunias]

I wonder what would happen if EU privacy protections was relaxed such that Google's infamously controversial new privacy policies was allowed.