• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    It’s also not applied at a national level, but in some areas, from what I’ve read, and is used largely against companies that try to skirt the law.

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      3 hours ago

      I mean, that’s also pretty awesome that there’s decent regulations as part of it(at least nominally, I don’t live there so can’t say for certain), but it seems to be primarily a banking/lending thing similar to in the US which is what a lot of jingoistic fearmongering types either completely miss or purposely ignore.

      It’s decidedly not a surveillance thing, which is the funny part.