5 and 9 and 14 Eyes are all apparently focused on signals intelligence: - https://protonvpn.com/blog/5-eyes-global-surveillance/ https://protonvpn.com/blog/5-e

5 and 9 and 14 Eyes are all apparently focused on signals intelligence: - https://protonvpn.com/blog/5-eyes-global-surveillance/ https://protonvpn.com/blog/5-eyes-global-surveillance/ - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-fiveeyes/exclusive-five-eyes-intelligence-alliance-builds-coalition-to-counter-china-idUSKCN1MM0GH https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-fiveeyes/exclusive-... Which I think means watching data move across the lines. If you'd like to pull your tinfoil hat even tighter: Germany, Netherlands, Iceland are listed above as broader members of signals intelligence sharing partnerships, as well as members of NATO. They have a discussion here of their policies and activities related to Cyber Defense: - https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_78170.htm https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_78170.htm If a government wants to take your hard drives it will. Unless there's explicit laws against the seizure of physical media, you're mostly relying on them either not having a sophisticated enough internal intelligence capacity that can do it quietly, or trusting in social reaction to a mostly boring, questionable infringement of property rights.