When will lawmakers realize anti-privacy laws only harm law-abiding citizens, making them vulnerable? Criminals will just keep using heavily encrypted systems anyway!

#privacy #rightoprivacy #chatcontrol #PrivacyMatters

“The documents state spy agencies will use the web portal not just to search through reams of private data, but also run them through artificial intelligence tools for further analysis.”
#RighToPrivacy #FourthAmendment #Trumpisn
#AI

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

The Intercept
I'd been out of the loop on #beneficialownership, but it seems things are regressing... in the #EU for a change! Following the Nov 2022 #CJEU decision that #publicregisters were breaching the #rightoprivacy, https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2022/11/22/la-justice-europeenne-met-un-frein-a-la-transparence-financiere_6151134_3234.html, many countries started pulling out of the #AML Directive. The latest is #France, who pulled out #bénéficiaireseffectifs from "#opendata, because of the #CJEU decision". Later, it claimed it'd been a technical rather than political issue. TBC?
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/01/05/transparence-financiere-la-france-suspend-en-catimini-son-registre-des-beneficiaires-effectifs-de-societes_6156758_4355770.html
La justice européenne met un frein à la transparence financière

La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a décidé, mardi, d’invalider une disposition de la directive antiblanchiment de 2018.

Le Monde