>Of course, there is always the possibility that the EU could veer away from privacy protections into being a totalitarian state, sure, but nobody is currently proposing legislation along those lines.
This eventually didn't hold up in court, but it pretty much shows where the Union has been on the privacy scale right from the start when it comes to governments doing the snooping.
15 years ago the EU made this into law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
This eventually didn't hold up in court, but it pretty much shows where the Union has been on the privacy scale right from the start when it comes to governments doing the snooping.