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Maybe they are just more aware of the associated risks?



no, unfortunately most eastern european societies are completely broken due to USSR influences. it was a wide-held belief in eastern europe that the state knows everything about you and that you should hide your daily life from everyone, as everyone could be a spy working for the government. this is what historically underlines gdpr and the whole privacy movement in europe: a deep-seated mistrust of everything and everyone. even to this day most european societies that fell behind the iron curtain are still broken 30 years after it came down.


How is it broken to assume you need to be privacy conscious, even when it comes to the state?


I think what OP describes is closer to 'widespread paranoia crippling the economy' than being 'privacy conscious'




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