I appreciate libertarian ideas about privacy, freedom to own weapons, speech, religion, etc. I just don't agree with them a whole lot on economic issues, but they have personal freedom down pat. I think the point about government isn't that I'm so worried about the government --currently--, but I know government almost never gives something back that they take away. In this case it's privacy. Hopefully the EU government (or at least the members of the EU individually) will realize this is an autocratic power grab and doesn't make anyone safer. You'd think they'd have had enough with dictators and autocratic governments knowing everything you do given what happened in WW1 and WW2