You could just call it "privacy sensitivity" but by international standards Germans tend to be more "paranoid" when it comes to protecting their data. The reaso

You could just call it "privacy sensitivity" but by international standards Germans tend to be more "paranoid" when it comes to protecting their data. The reason I'm using the phrase is mostly that it's not always entirely rational (e.g. the outrage about Google Street View was at times a bit absurd). The development is certainly positive and the GDPR is also very similar to pre-existing German privacy laws in many aspects, so I'm not complaining.