[gaius]

Indeed. It will take legislative action including no-knock raids on DCs and offices to rein them in.

Someone in the NHS needs to be held responsible too.

[fixermark]

It's interesting that you trust a government to execute a no-knock raid on a private company's datacenter (and extract only the information that is relevant without drag-netting unrelated private information) more than you trust that private company to secure your data (an exercise they have a vested economic interest in accomplishing).

At the end of the day, all of these questions always come down to trust and just trust.

[gaius]

I don’t mean extracting it - I mean destroying it.