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?

  • redfellow
    3•7 months ago

    Firstly: Your question was about data protection, not intelligence, and before you edited your question it did not contain one remark about X Eyes, which again, are intelligence sharing treaties and not about civillian data protection.

    Secondly: Europe consists of 44 countries, even if some of them might have -and I’m not saying they do as I don’t pretend to know every thing - shitty laws in regards to privacy, the ones that I know have it alright, including where I live.

    Being EU based is better than what you listed, and better than US. We have a metric fuckton less surveillance (even though your question was about data protection), and companies are regularly fined very large sums if they break privacy laws.

    Lastly, please learn the difference between Europe and EU. You keep interchanging them in your post and it shows how little you actually understand.