[rhatsf]

There was a certain NHS fiasco in Britain ... Apart from that, Germany has still some data protection left and Germans like their privacy. Which is the real factor that prohibits large data collection brokerages.

Additionally, if every country goes into the digital fluff economy, nothing real is produced and you are even more dependent on China (and Russia for resources).

[tw1984]

> if every country goes into the digital fluff economy, nothing real is produced and you are even more dependent on China

funny that China itself has a huge digital economy while producing real stuff for the entire world.

[blibble]

I suspect the german state's total reliance on fax machines, notaries and and physical paper forms is what keeps german records out of giant electronic databases

rather than "germans liking their privacy"