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Wait, do you think law enforcement agencies in Europe can't force companies to reveal ip addresses and/or other customer information?
by bcrosby95 4y ago
Wait, do you think law enforcement agencies in Europe can't force companies to reveal ip addresses and/or other customer information?
- marcosdumay 4y agoThey can do whatever the local laws allow. If the local laws forbid it, then they can't.
- kube-system 4y agoThe idea that this type of information would be shielded from a legal warrant (or local equivalent) is silly.
- JasonFruit 4y agoI think you and I have different definitions of "can't".
- BlueTemplar 4y agoThis is perhaps more about intelligence agencies : (we would NOT be in this situation if Patriot Act => Snowden scandal had not happened) https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-europes-intelligence-services-aim-avoid-eus-highest-court-and-what-it-means-united-states https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-europes-intelligence-service... Still, I think you can see how a lot of people might feel more comfortable being spied upon by "their own" intelligence agencies, than foreign ones ? (Since, in democratic countries, these agencies are at least theoretically under the control of governments, which are in theory representative of citizens.) And while the USA (unlike, say, Russia or China), is treated as an EU ally, their unrivaled power combined with their "world police" actions end up chafing even in the EU...