Re: [ga-sys] Territorial approach to privacy issues

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Joanna,

Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 1:30:55 AM, Joanna Lane wrote:

> The EU Privacy law was made by a democratically elected government, that
> represents the voice of the majority of people in its 15 nations.

This implies that the laws passed by politicians automatically are
acceptable to over half of the population.

That is a faulty assumption.

You cannot say that a majority of Europeans support the law simply
because it was passed by the EU's elected politicians.

That is not a fair statement to make.




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