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by freeflight 1491 days ago
> Pretty sure it's just Germany being pig-headed about it for some reason.

That pig-headed reason being that Germany went trough two different repressive regime during the last century.

Regimes that made plenty of use of large scale surveillance and data collections [0] to find a lot of their victims.

That's why cash still reigns supreme in Germany; It's anonymous and third parties can't just remotely disable it by disabling your bank account.

It's also the reason why Germans value their privacy, at least used to.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Liste