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lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
Nov 12, 2026, 2:58 PM
This proposal, which is getting drowned in the AI noise, is a travesty for the residents of the EU.
The goal (helping others compete with Google) makes sense, the solution is awful. It effectively mandates Google to hand over your search history to any adversary who can muster fairly modest resources.
Link: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/alone-among-a-thousand-the-european-commissions-anonymisation-of-europeans-google-searches-is-broken/ + https://lukaszolejnik.com/reports/alone-in-thousand-final.pdf
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Iggy Frankovic :verified:iggy_frankovic@infosec.exchange
Nov 12, 2026, 4:08 PM
@lcamtuf as a former European, it still baffles me how we can’t seem to get out of our own way when it comes to any solutions that would make Europe more competitive with the US in the tech space at least. Having been on both sides of the body of water, it’s very obvious to me at least that it’s cultural. Risk aversion, weird infatuation with 76 billion rules and regulations, and other govt papercuts, add up to an environment in which people think that the only way to compete in business is with government help.
I’m skipping over a ton of detail and nuance ofc, but in general I’m not sure I’m far off with my opinion
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lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
Nov 12, 2026, 4:14 PM
@iggy_frankovic I mean, a point my colleague likes to make is that maybe it's a rational decision that you want to have a more equitable society at the "expense" of not having trillion-dollar ad tech companies.
But then, fully commit to the role, I guess?
In this instance, it's more basic, though. The idea that we're gonna level the playing field by broadcasting everyone's hopelesssly-non-anonymizable search history to other companies is just nuts.
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polprog68kgorplop@pleroma.m68k.church
Nov 12, 2026, 5:35 PM
@lcamtuf The bar for EU legislation is pretty low, since all of these bills are good idea, horrible execution, but this is so bad I have no idea what to call it.
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