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What do you think changed for governments? If there is a search warrant, police could and still can access data. GDPR didn't change anything in this regard. M

• oblio 8y ago
  > My feeling is that in the EU there is a different view of government: it's not a third adversarial entity. That should be the de facto stance regarding government in democratic countries, in my opinion. The government is a third party that intermediates, fundamentally, between: * individuals/groups of individuals and other individuals/groups of individuals, all inside the same country * itself and the governments of other countries The first point is very important, a society of a big enough scale, in the absence of hierarchy invariably degenerates into an anarchy where the only law is the law of the jungle: the strongest survive. That's why we add this third party that can intervene for the weak. This third party can be corrupted by various interests, but the hope is that these interests balance themselves out. And even a corrupt state is better than no state at all (or even a very weak state). Look at current day Somalia, Iraq post 2001, Libya post 2011.
• zerostar07 8y ago
  > EU there is a different view of government: it's not a third adversarial entity. We are not from another planet. EU likes to portray itself as trustworthy - it largely is - but that doesn't mean there are no problems. EU governments can vastly differ in quality , you just happen to hear from the most accountable ones.