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Thursday, February 06, 2014

EU discovers that privacy laws can be abused. By someone other than the EU.

EU discovers that privacy laws can be abused. By someone other than the EU.

By Stewart Baker
February 6 at 8:54 pm

You’ve got to hand it to the Turks. Just when it seemed that the European Union would never see the danger (as opposed to the opportunity) of abusive privacy laws, the Turkish Parliament adopted one that caused even the EU to choke. According to the Wall Street Journal, the law is a prime candidate for a Privy — a genuinely Dubious Achievement in Privacy Law:

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