Ok but is this >You mean they can go to the DOJ and ask for a subpoena and then go argue to a court that somehow like - how much more difficult is this than g

Ok but is this >You mean they can go to the DOJ and ask for a subpoena and then go argue to a court that somehow like - how much more difficult is this than getting a warrant? I mean this doesn't make it seem very difficult https://lorr.com/how-to-subpoena-documents-examples-process/ https://lorr.com/how-to-subpoena-documents-examples-process/ It's not having a trial or anything to get the data, it is a judge (or in the link, a court clerk?) signing off on the subpoena or am I confused as to how complicated and difficult and time consuming that actually is. Because getting a warrant is in my experience not like something that takes months and months where people argue and there is a likelihood that even if the warrant is granted that you can appeal to have it overturned, and it seems like a subpoena is no more difficult than getting a warrant and maybe easier. At any rate, aside from the fact that the American government has often been shown to take more data than needed in their searches of people - that is to say abuse the layers of checks and balances - the European government would of course worry about potential abuses and disallow on the better safe than sorry view of protecting its citizens. on edit: slackdog made a more relevant point than I did anyway.