It's something most Americans don't appreciate. Half of Europe suffered under or from a totalitarian regime not that long ago and set up their respective barriers.
Some people give it lip service in America for political points but they don't understand it on a fundamental level - most of them would turn around and complain about why google street view doesn't work in Germany.
I say this as someone who has bounced around between both sides of the pond
> Half of Europe suffered under or from a totalitarian regime not that long ago and set up their respective barriers.
Meanwhile Denmark: “It’s time to fill out your yearly tax declaration! Actually, you don’t have to bother! We already pulled your data from EVERYWHERE…”.
I actually think that's not "that wrong". You pay social security to the government, you pay car tax to the government and (to some part in Switzerland) the health insurances are tightly coupled to the government. Bank statements missing and the government already has 80% of your tax form.
Still you need to put in everything again, each year.
Are you kidding? If this happened in America we'd never hear the end of it from Europeans.
Obviously, the government would love to just pilfer around in the computers of private citizens and businesses without "filling out forms", but that's not a good reason to give it to them.
They don’t get to ‘pilver around the computers of private citizens’ though. Only those citizens directly affected by an existing hack (I read it as being under control of the hacker).
If I had the choice between just a nefarious hacker, and both the nefarious hacker and the NL security services having access to my PC I’d choose the latter.
Some people give it lip service in America for political points but they don't understand it on a fundamental level - most of them would turn around and complain about why google street view doesn't work in Germany.
I say this as someone who has bounced around between both sides of the pond