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The number of governments that have not had to deal with ethics concerns is exactly zero.

Rather than drawing a broad hand-wavy link between ethics concerns and respect for privacy, you'd be much more accurate in measuring privacy by directly considering their practical legal frameworks that protect privacy.

> A country who has been killing people in various wars/invasions is unlikely to behave ethically when it comes to privacy.

This doesn't hold up. There are many countries that will straight up man-in-the-middle internet traffic with no oversight that have been at peace longer than Germany.

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> The number of governments that have not had to deal with ethics concerns is exactly zero.

Some are worse than others. America is one of the worst. War, invasions, mass surveillance, mass incarcaration...

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This is simply not factual, it is an information availability bias. America is one of the most publicized nations, and sunlight is one of the best disinfectants. By any academically rigorous measure, the US ranks high in ethics, along with most other western style democratic systems.

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Tell that to the people that were killed by American military in Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and probably other places I am forgetting.

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This has nothing to do with internet privacy.

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Of course it does.

A country like America that has been murdering people in many wars around the world without hesitation is unlikely to take my privacy seriously. They don't respect my right to live, do you think they will respect my right to privacy?

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Germany is widely regarded as having the best privacy laws in the world, and they participate in NATO conflicts.

Several countries in SE-Asia have been at peace for much longer and will happily man-in-the-middle your internet traffic at the whim of their unchecked government powers [e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Vietnam].

A country's participation in war and their effective protections for privacy are not strongly correlated, demonstrably so.