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History basically. Privacy isn’t a fringe issue here in Germany. It’s baked into society, our politics and our culture. The CCC is known even to older people. Even though we have to register where we live with our local registration office those records are strictly not centrally stored. If you move between Bundeslände (state) your records are transferred from one to the other. Centralization of records helped the Nazis identify Jews for example. The Stasi watched everyone in East Germany. Signal is very popular. Large US social networks are not trusted by default. Our press still has more teeth than in many other neighboring countries as well.