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> Google’s global privacy lawyer, Peter Fleischer, said today in a personal blog post that [EU] politicians should go back to the drawing board on rules he said could set global privacy standards.

Wow. How about no, Google? I started noticing a trend about a year or two ago and I realized that there may come a time when Google will be an "active persistent threat" against the Internet, because instead of adapting to a business model that aligns with the users, they will become increasingly more aggressive with their surveillance of users, and if say Internet users eventually decided they want more end-to-end security and anonymity on the web, Google would do everything in their power to fight against that and against them.

It seems that's coming sooner, rather than later. Google is already heavily lobbying the EU and calling the data privacy bill "dead", hoping that it will become self-fulfilling prophecy.

Google is trying to kill proper privacy laws in EU because they will make "less" money otherwise in Europe. Well, tough luck, Google. As an European, I'd rather not use Google than have much weaker data and privacy laws, especially after the whole NSA thing when American companies can't be trusted anymore anyway.