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Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by lostlogin on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:15PM (#13859919)
From what I understand, the Dutch are one of the most surveilled societies on earth. It would appear that a holocaust doesn't make a population sensitive to state surveillance.
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Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by jacquesm on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:20PM (#13859979)
Yep. Because 'we have nothing to hide'.

Interestingly though, just after the wall fell if there was one country that was hyper-sensitive to any kind of surveillance it was the Eastern part of re-united Germany. That was one part of Europe where people seemed to 'get it' in large enough numbers to actually make a difference. Some parts of Poland after their independence from Soviet domination as well.

Though for the most part that seems to have slowly crumbled away.

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