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?
Tough question, depends on what you are looking for. Hosted in the EU grants a set of pretty good data protection laws, but if you do illegal stuff, you want to host outside of this jurisdictions