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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

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Puzzled Old F**t Here......

Quote: " Laws modeled after the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) make reverse-engineering, modifying firmware, or bypassing access controls a criminal offense."

So......I am the owner of some data somewhere. I NEVER bypass access controls to get at MY data.......after all it is my data.

How can it be a "criminal offense" for me to write a program to copy my data to some other location?

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