Whenever I encounter the label “made in EU”, “Germany”, “Estonia”, “France” … in the footer of a web project, which implies enhanced data-protection, apparently, I wonder:
How can it be so? There’re some data-protection laws, yes. But one can’t control a hosting provider 24h/day. One can’t know whether an employer there copies all data on his memory-drivers.
Can’t the police, if need be, seize a server as easily as it would in any other country on Earth?
Don’t the majority of all of countries in Europe share information with the intelligence of US by the agreements of the 5 eyes, 9 eyes, 14 eyes? Whereas the 2nd and 3rd world countries don’t.
How is it better than a label “made in South Africa”, “Thailand”, “Costa Rica”, “Egypt”, “Kuwait”?
I can see how “made in Germany” or EU makes a project worse in terms of privacy and data-protection. How could it make it better, though?
Yes. No privacy protections anywhere in the world protect criminal suspects from warranted surveillance. Privacy laws are only intended to protect non-suspects from unreasonable unwarranted searches.
Then why don’t you go to North Korea? Or Iran? Or China. According to you, if you do nothing wrong, you won’t have any problem there. And if you end up with a problem with a police there, then you’re a criminal, therefore must be punished anyway.
You are quite confused. The places you list are places that do not have privacy protections for non-criminals. Europe is where a law-abiding person is least likely to be unreasonably searched or interrogated.
You are quite naive - unable to see 2 steps ahead of your own reasoning.