On 10/20/2013 2:19 PM, Antispam 06 wrote:
I'm not knocking Finland. I know nothing of their privacy / citizens' rights laws. Even if "A / The / Another Country" has the BEST internet user, or any other privacy, citizens' rights laws in the WORLD, it doesn't mean all (or any) OTHER countries respect their laws. It doesn't mean other countries' LEAs aren't sniffing all the communications they can, that passes through those great countries (possibly even their "allies").On 20.10.2013 20:41, Anonymous wrote:I'm using an Finland provider 'cuz their law does not allow any other agentcy or anything like that to gain access to your files so easilly.That's so cute! Can you point out some time a spy agency was brought in front of a judge for not respecting the law. The same law written in stone in some countries as «nobody is above the law». Do you know of a time when they were found guilty and punished or ever issued an appology?
It doesn't mean some advanced countries don't have the ability to sniff / capture *SOME* of those great countries' internet, email, voice communications. Maybe none, a little or a lot - who knows? Maybe someone will leak some documents that sheds light on those activities.
IIRC, there are a number of countries "upset" right now, by indications of LEAs from another country(ies) doing communications data gathering in their country. Brazil - one that is upset. And others.
If you're a citizen of Finland or a super privacy conscious land, that's great. If you live in a country w/ not so good privacy laws (or ones that aren't enforced), & are just using internet / email service in those great lands, your info might not be a private / protected as you (anyone) thought. From a privacy standpoint, it may? be somewhat better to use email servers somewhere like Finland, but it now seems apparent that it doesn't put you completely out of the "long arm of the law" of your own country. Depending on where you live.
AFAIK, it's not illegal in most countries for its OWN agencies to spy on (in), gather data in other countries, in any manner they can possibly dream up. Quite the opposite. Which is what many countries do to each other - now, 365 days / yr.
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