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1/Thread. The US is about to have the first real debate about privacy in decades. Thanks Europe. ft.com/content/2d15b8… via @financialtimes
2/In the last year, Europe has started pressuring US surveillance capitalism from multiple fronts. Privacy and anti-trust regulators are gumming up business as usual at Facebook and Google. wired.com/story/germany-… via @WIRED
3/Here, French privacy regulators go after Google. wired.com/story/eu-priva… via @WIRED
4/Many pooh-pooh these as minor cuts in the surveillance capitalism armor. But the real action is the division it is sowing in the US Tech World.
5/As @NikKalyanpur and I argue in a piece in @JCMS_EU, US Tech is getting branded as bad news in Europe and as a result is facing a growing regulatory burden. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
6/There is now a wedge opening in the US tech community, with Apple using EU law to bash Facebook and Google. theguardian.com/technology/201…
7/Now Cisco is joining in. businessinsider.com/cisco-ceo-chuc…
8/Why? In part, Apple and Cisco are burnishing their brands to distinguish themselves from data vacuums. They also want to limit fragmentation from a bunch of state laws. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
9/All of this is part of a more general variant of transnational politics that @henryfarrell and I outline in our forthcoming @PrincetonUPress book. amazon.com/Privacy-Power-…
10/The danger for privacy advocates is that Big Tech will use the federal rules to water down state laws.
11/EU pressure will be a key tool in raising US standards and transforming the US debate.
