The point is not whether such important information will be hidden that Navy Seals, CIA NSA, or whaotnot will come in and invade a data haven, the entire point is whether individuals have a right to have assurances that their data will be kept private and personal. Sure, most people will just have pOrn, chessy emails and so forth, and there will be a lack of truly important information, but the bottom line is the right to have secure data, the right for your information not to be accessible to any entity that has not been granted legitimate access. Since the recent beginning of individual rights, starting with the Magna Charta, the question is how soveriegn is an individual? Is a person an entity which has various entitlements to privacy, or is an individual just property of the state?? For a data haven not to have the right to operate within a particular country's laws, and their clients' rights to have secure information, this would be a huge drawback on people's individual's rights. As for illegal organizations, various governments have the right (with a court order) to tap into suspected criminals computers in their own country. If properly done, that would give various police powers the evidence they need to document various crimes without breaking into the data havens, so invading a data haven becomes a moot point. So, the entire point of a data haven is to guarentee the right of the individual over the right of the state to completely monitor the individual in question.
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The point is not whether such important information will be hidden that Navy Seals, CIA NSA, or whaotnot will come in and invade a data haven, the entire point is whether individuals have a right to have assurances that their data will be kept private and personal. Sure, most people will just have pOrn, chessy emails and so forth, and there will be a lack of truly important information, but the bottom line is the right to have secure data, the right for your information not to be accessible to any entity that has not been granted legitimate access. Since the recent beginning of individual rights, starting with the Magna Charta, the question is how soveriegn is an individual? Is a person an entity which has various entitlements to privacy, or is an individual just property of the state?? For a data haven not to have the right to operate within a particular country's laws, and their clients' rights to have secure information, this would be a huge drawback on people's individual's rights. As for illegal organizations, various governments have the right (with a court order) to tap into suspected criminals computers in their own country. If properly done, that would give various police powers the evidence they need to document various crimes without breaking into the data havens, so invading a data haven becomes a moot point. So, the entire point of a data haven is to guarentee the right of the individual over the right of the state to completely monitor the individual in question.