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Europe may have strong laws regarding privacy. Those laws don’t apply to government requests. That’s a difference.
by kobeya 9y ago
Europe may have strong laws regarding privacy. Those laws don’t apply to government requests. That’s a difference.
- sgift 9y agoGermanys data protection laws bind the government too. The government cannot request any data they like without a valid reason (though still too much in my opinion).
- jandrese 9y agoThere are a lot of checks in the US that require a "valid reason", but in the end the people granting those requests tend to rubber stamp everything that goes across their desk, and the only rejections are for people who make errors on the request form. It might stop a really egregious violation (spying on political rivals for example), but for general public the protection is pretty weak.