[raxxorraxor]

You will never get bureaucracy out of Europe anymore, it is a done deal. Worse, surveillance will be extremely expanded with the AI act and police forces will be consolidated. Of course that won't help against criminal cases like this at all. It is truly the old continent by now. Taxes must be so high because the system will leech all that money, such schemes will be just a side note.

[hypertele-Xii]

Good. Bureaucracy is what protects us from hypercapitalists raping our planet's environment for personal gain. European standards are stricter and produce cleaner everything from food to appliances to cars. Our lives are generally better in every way and for less money sunk, even accounting for supposedly higher taxes.

[raxxorraxor]

That is an illusion about the current situation, European politicians have the closest relations to industry and are far easier lobbied than decentral governments and bureaucracy can act as a defense of established actors. Privacy laws are build with contacts from Google and Facebook. Once the relation is established you will never get rid of this anymore.

Exchange some popular issue for access to user data, the same that happened with telephone providers. Just be realistic about it.