You're assuming that your country is going to remain a democracy. The 20th century has a bunch of examples of countries that were democracies, until they weren

You're assuming that your country is going to remain a democracy. The 20th century has a bunch of examples of countries that were democracies, until they weren't. That's probably the main reason for which the EU is pro-privacy. Because Europe has seen what can happen when data falls into the wrong hands.