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> This probably won't fly in Germany as Germans are very privacy cautious. After having lived in Germany for ~7 years this statement always makes me laugh. So
by odiroot 5y ago
> This probably won't fly in Germany as Germans are very privacy cautious.
After having lived in Germany for ~7 years this statement always makes me laugh.
Some examples:
* Names on doorbells (yes, visible from the street).
* People using "loyalty cards" left and right, letting the merchants track their behaviour even if they pay with cash.
* Giving a stack of papers (including ID copy, salary statements etc) to a real estate owner to apply for a rental.
- lxgr 5y ago> * Names on doorbells (yes, visible from the street). You need these because somehow the concept of apartment numbers does not exist. As a result, mail and food delivery in large apartment buildings is interesting as well. It seems pretty bizarre compared to all other countries I've ever sent mail to. > * People using "loyalty cards" left and right, letting the merchants track their behaviour even if they pay with cash. I'd argue that there is a pretty bimodal distribution of the population when it comes to privacy: Some people don't care at all and will use these cards, while others will fight every single bit of data stored about them tooth and nail. > * Giving a stack of papers (including ID copy, salary statements etc) to a real estate owner to apply for a rental. What's the problem here? Paper is inherently safe, unlike digital data. /s Well, at least faxes have been officially declared equally safe (or unsafe) as email, which hopefully will finally kill them off as the communications technology of choice of the administration.
- durnygbur 5y agoTruth is, once registered at an address in Germany one is fully transparent to and trackable by all domestic actors - public, malicious, predatory. Any privacy hysteria in Germany boils down to one of: "Americans will watch us" or "Slavs will steal our possesions". Then there is the cherry on the top "Slavs will use American system to steal our possesions".
- CRConrad 5y agoWell, the Little Father Of The Russians -- pretty much an Über-Slav, no? -- already used American and British systems to steal a British referendum and an American election, so the cherry-on-top Germans seem to be the ones who got it right.
- durnygbur 5y agoNot sure if serious or... heh.