[throwaway237289]

> If companies would respect the spirit behind GDPR and not store data that is not needed to fulfill a user's requests and protect the data that they must have in a way that makes dragnet searches impossible, this would not be a problem.

This is ridiculous. Literally the authorities are the one demanding information, so that they can abuse that power.

And you're blaming the people with information?

Stop fighting the wrong war: hold the people with power accountable. That's the government here. They can use force and put you in jail. That's power.

[kevinmchugh]

Anyone collecting data needs to consider how the data can be misused. Whether that be by a (repressive) government, a hacker, or a future purchaser of the data

[tomrod]

Both, not either.