> Generally speaking, the EU has some quite strong privacy protections relative to the US.

Please, like what? GDPR?

isbvhodnvemrwvn an hour ago | parent [-]

Let's just say you won't find my name, address, my yearbook pictures, history of where I lived, anywhere on the internet. I can quite easily get this information for all distant cousins in the US. And that has been the case long before GDPR was a thing. The culture around privacy is simply different.

	▲	qeternity 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Except that the government has all of this information and much more. And you have no protections from the "much more" bits, unlike in the US. It's incredible that Europeans today think the culture of privacy is different. American privacy protections (from the government) were born out of European flaws. The difference is that Europeans love the nanny state regulating private enterprise (GDPR) but never pointing that same effort against itself.