[salient]

Read the article? They've trying to kill the EU Data Privacy law through lobbying and such PR statements. It's not just them. It's also Facebook, probably Microsoft, too, the US government itself, and others. But I think they are among the big ones.

It's also true that Google's lobbying budget has increased quite rapidly over the past few years. Initially I thought it was just to get self-driving cars allowed, and Google Fiber, which I was mostly fine with because in the case of Google Fiber I knew many states had poor laws against any competition to local monopolies, and in the case of self-driving cars, while regulation needs to be carefully weighed, I also think it should happen sooner rather than later.

But now I think they're going to use more and more of that money to either kill strong privacy laws, in US, and EU or other places, and also to try and pass new laws that allows them to do more surveillance of users [1].

[1] - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_...

[oh_sigh]

Just saying that they are "trying to kill the EU Data Privacy law" assumes that the privacy law is good to begin with. I'm not saying it is or it isn't(I don't know much about it other than high level summaries).

Just going on names alone, I could argue that anyone who tried to kill Americas Patriot Act hated patriots.