Europeans are starting to see US tech as a privacy risk, survey claims

[bigreddyde]

The scale of the numbers alone could show two things. It could show how much more crime is being committed in Europe, and how much higher the bar is for American law enforcement to obtain warrants than European law enforcement. In both cases, to privacy conscious individuals it shows which place is a better place to live.

There's a third option. They can just buy the data...

 

[Plutoisaplanet]

There's a third option. They can just buy the data...

Law enforcement does have to pay a certain amount of money when they have a search order, so that's not a third option. American cloud companies will refuse to share data without a warrant: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/technology/google-search-warrants-legal-fees.html