I believe you're right. In Denmark the speed limit on highways are 130 km/h and limited to 110 km/h near the larger cities. Country roads have limits of 80 km/h, some 90 km/h and some 70 km/h.
Driving 150 km/h on the highway is not safe, when everyone else is driving 130. And most of our highways only have two lanes in each direction.
The speed limit is also typically 80km/h on these barely paved roads in Denmark.
Something in this article strikes me, and that is the "download" part. Downloading this data was protected by internal security checks... But what about accessing the data without downloading it? Is that fine?? How much do these employees actually have access to? Most users probably haven't enabled the message encryption.