Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻

As we see the #authoritarian chaos unfolding in the #USA, I am wondering if all those people who have been campaigning for decades to undermine the #EU 's strict constitutional laws on #privacy and #DataProtection -- in the service of enabling virtually unrestrained transfers of Europeans' personal data to King #Donald 's junta to continue -- have any regrets 🧐

#Trump #GDPR #CFR #TFEU #DataProtection #Schrems #CJEU #FreeFlowOfDataWithTrust #OECD #DAU #adequacy #DPRC 1/2

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Show threadIan Brown 👨🏻‍💻Jun 9, 2025

Recall those laws are direct lessons of the rise of fascist totalitarian governments in Europe, which killed tens of millions of people during the 20th century. Particularly -- but not limited to -- those of #Hitler, #Mussolini, and the #USSR.

Some reflection by enablers at @EUCommission, European Data Protection Board, Data Protection Commission Ireland, OECD, and elsewhere might also be wise.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7337720976790503424-_yZV

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Show threadIan Brown 👨🏻‍💻Jun 9, 2025
Reference: https://www.ianbrown.tech/exchanges-of-personal-data-after-the-schrems-ii-judgment/
Exchanges of Personal Data After the Schrems II Judgment

We have now completed our work for the European Parliament on transatlantic data flows following the EU Court of Justice’s Schrems II judgment, presenting our study in a hearing last week of the Ci

Show threadIan Brown 👨🏻‍💻Jun 9, 2025
Sorry, how could I forget the useful idiots in the UK government and security services who have so enmeshed the two countries' intelligence and surveillance apparatuses that -- as one friend who worked at #GCHQ on secondment told me -- you can "barely tell where one ends and the other begins”.
#BigBrotherWatchVsUK
Show threadIan Brown 👨🏻‍💻Jun 9, 2025
These same imbeciles (I believe largely in the 🇬🇧 #HomeOffice) are trying to force #Apple to install a worldwide backdoor in its end-to-end encrypted #iCloud service #ADP, using a #TechnicalCapabilityNotice under the UK's Orwellian mass surveillance-enabling laws (such as the #InvestigatoryPowersAct) and very weakly overseen by the retired judges at #IPCO (appointed by the government)
Show threadMartin Vermeer 86 47Jun 9, 2025
@1br0wn Yep, also the backdoor stuff. Not to forget the various think-of-the-children nonsense which are also privacy disasters waiting to happen.
Show threadGateklonsJun 9, 2025
@1br0wn @EUCommission EDPB also has enablers?
Show threadDr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶Jun 9, 2025
@1br0wn @EUCommission
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