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

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

U. S. Presidential elections aside, the law is the law.  Moreover,
protection of privacy has long been a cultural tradition in Europe,
much more so than in the U.S., and for quite a historically long time.
Joanna's assumption is perfectly valid. (Let's hear from one of our
other EU people on this, such as Jefsey, huh?)

Bill Lovell

"William X. Walsh" wrote:

> 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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