You are thinking of the FBI. The FBI gets a court order to look for a specific subject and it outlines who they are interested (even if it is a John Doe) and wh

You are thinking of the FBI. The FBI gets a court order to look for a specific subject and it outlines who they are interested (even if it is a John Doe) and what they are allowed to take. No judge is going to sign off on big data search. It's going to get punted in court or leaves any case made from it open to appeal. There are hundreds of datacentera throughout Europe. The equipment necessary to do all that would be very visible. And you would need the cooperation of all the employees to not say anything. You can tap a router or a switch it a server but a datacentet has thousands of these. You can't tap them all. If you did your customers would ask questions and the smart ones would be gone in an hour. We have a disaster recovery plan you know. American exceptionalism strikes again. How about you read their laws rather than assume ours are better. Anyone can listen into the airwaves. It's public property. Now they encrypt phone calls. They can do all these extra legal things knowing it's not admissible in court. You want to do business you follow the law. It's how it's always worked.