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by est31 1288 days ago
> Not sure if our history has something to do with it so that many feel uneasy about giving away too much control about our personal data, but maybe it does.

Germany has seen two dictatorships in the last century. The first one was more brutal, but the second one maintained a gigantic spying apparatus on its citizens, that took a large fraction of the state's budget.

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Germany is not unique in this regard. The entire central Europe shared the same fate.