[JohnMakin]

To me it does, in terms of data privacy and isolation if your goal is to remain undetected by anyone you wish not to be - it's the wild west, even if you believe the GDPR has been effective. Even if you do believe it's just as bad in the rest of the world, we're heading into some sort of crisis when sufficiently powerful computing becomes commercially available (if it isn't already somewhere in a lab) and all the data these countries have been hoovering up and storing for who knows how long becomes decrypted, I would much rather be living in other parts of the world in terms of my privacy if/when that day comes.

[sofixa]

Are you under the impression things are somehow better in e.g. Saudi Arabia or Russia or China? Maybe if the qualification was "developed countries", because developing ones might not have the budget, but "the west" is just wrong.

[duxup]

I'm not sure I understand.

I guess I was saying that I don't see "especially" the west as far as privacy goes.