It may cause corruption, because despite lawmaker's attempts to carve out security*- and governance-critical communications, it's almost impossible for this tech to fail to open doors to blackmailers.
But existing corruption is neither necessary nor sufficient for what we see here. Wrong axis.
EU is (mostly, and relatively speaking) un-corrupt as governments go; more corrupt places (and also authoritarian places) will write fantastic laws that they just straight-up ignore.
* Which won't work anyway: consider that the US military had to issue statements and bans because fitbit was revealing too much about military bases.
It's totally done in bad faith, corruption is a real thing in EU politics.
It may cause corruption, because despite lawmaker's attempts to carve out security*- and governance-critical communications, it's almost impossible for this tech to fail to open doors to blackmailers.
But existing corruption is neither necessary nor sufficient for what we see here. Wrong axis.
EU is (mostly, and relatively speaking) un-corrupt as governments go; more corrupt places (and also authoritarian places) will write fantastic laws that they just straight-up ignore.
* Which won't work anyway: consider that the US military had to issue statements and bans because fitbit was revealing too much about military bases.