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What the fuck, why did we give in?
Money, probably.
With the recent bribery scandal, EU officials seem to come really cheap.
Have you seen what it takes to buy off a US politician? A few thousand is enough in some cases.
It wasn't as widespread as initially feared
The European commission never was part of the solution but the problem. They just enjoy that the US can do the spying on EU citizens FOR them, while pretending that they wouldn’t install that kind of surveillance in Europe if they could.
If this is something you don’t want for the EU, maybe you should support NOYB
https://noyb.eu/en
Definitely, very good initiative here: https://noyb.eu/en/european-commission-gives-eu-us-data-transfers-third-round-cjeu