When the German Verfassungsgericht (our equivalent of the US Supreme Court, I guess) struck down the data retention law on phone/Internet metadata, there was a

When the German Verfassungsgericht (our equivalent of the US Supreme Court, I guess) struck down the data retention law on phone/Internet metadata, there was a sentence in the verdict that was just priceless - "Wo ein Trog ist, da kommen die Schweine" (Where there is a trough, the pigs will come).[1] If more services start to avoid storing data altogether (or at least only encrypted in a way that prevents them from accessing the data), there will be less food so to speak for the various creatures that might gravitate towards the trough. [1] NB that the choice of words is not mine - the irony of a supreme court judge calling law enforcement and intelligence agencies pigs is kind of nice, though. ;-)