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> Thankfully the Swedes are not as luddites as the Germans and adopt more easily solutions that make their lives easier Germans are not luddites, they are care

> Thankfully the Swedes are not as luddites as the Germans and adopt more easily solutions that make their lives easier Germans are not luddites, they are careful with privacy. They have more than one reason to be careful with it [0, 1]. There's a tradeoff between "personal convenience" and "civil liberties" like privacy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennkarte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennkarte [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

raverbashing 6y ago
> Germans are not luddites, they are careful with privacy. Being scared of Google street view and continuing to use fax machines are not wise worries about privacy, sorry Yes I know about the historical reasons they're "worried" about privacy, but it's a misplaced worry because they don't address their real privacy shortcomings, like requiring registration of people (+ sensitive privacy info) who live in a city, using last names (and not apartment numbers) in mailboxes, limited anonymous internet access (to please the copyright lobby, etc) and their lax internet security capabilities (like the Berlin courts who were still on Windows 95) So again, if they really worry about privacy they're addressing it through the wrong angle.