I really don't mind much about private companies spying on citizens: it's surveillance capitalism after all and you certainly, for example, decide to give FB/WhatsApp/Threads/Instagram the big giant middle finger.
What I do mind though is, once again, the EU Commission showing what they are: leeches fed on lobbyists money to pass laws favoring big corporations. It's insane but the EU Commission is, since it exists and relentlessly and endlessly, the bad guy. The EU Parliament, where there's at least a few hundreds elected people, tries to tone down the EU Commission but the Commission has been given so much power it pretty much writes the rules (which all the EU countries are forced to transpose into national laws).
AFAIK more money is spend in lobbying in the EU than in the US.
What I do mind though is, once again, the EU Commission showing what they are: leeches fed on lobbyists money to pass laws favoring big corporations. It's insane but the EU Commission is, since it exists and relentlessly and endlessly, the bad guy. The EU Parliament, where there's at least a few hundreds elected people, tries to tone down the EU Commission but the Commission has been given so much power it pretty much writes the rules (which all the EU countries are forced to transpose into national laws).
AFAIK more money is spend in lobbying in the EU than in the US.
It's legal bribery and it's sad really.