> Our prime minister in NL recently got away with using a Nokia 3310 to circumvent SMS retention law

that's not entirely correct but people can read more here for example:

https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/politiek/71fd3bb2-b74b-4f4f-...

in this case the situation is far worse and the whole debate on the lack of transparency on decisions taken to fight sars-cov-2 pandemic in eu is something lots of people are protesting .