[AndrewKemendo]

I think this ignores the reality of who populates these beuraucracies. I worked for the DoD alongside the FBI, NSA and others and the sheer delight that case agents and officers get for "hammering" people/entities under scrutiny cannot be overstated - it's part of the ethos.

It has little to do with how much they get paid. It has everything to do with wielding power backed by a state enforcement entity.

[rahoulb]

Yet when the Cookie Law came out the ICO basically said "we know it's complicated, it's an education job, not an enforcement one".