Not my experience at all.
We are also often only privacy-obsessed, when there are big news articles about it.
Bullshit.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...
~30% of the population has a Facebook account.
No, it really doesn't. The state always wants far more data than it collects. It's usually limited to what it actually needs. For example, the state has no reason to build it's own version of Streetview, so it doesn't, but you can be sure that someone in government would love unfettered access to all the data Google collects like the raw photos, details of wifi networks, etc (and in many countries Google probably gives them have exactly that).
If another truly evil government arises and seeks to wipeout vast numbers of their citizens, you can be absolutely certain one of the first things they'll do is to augment the data they already have with the data that's collected by private companies.
For Germany to fight against the collection of that data, and to try to limit who can access that data by paying or coercing Google, is very sensible.
Latter group actually argued that street-view would be used by burglars to identify possible targets in real-time. I recall on of these i***** to propose German police to patrol street-view!
With the large majority being neutral/positive on the topic, but not motivated to argue publicly against the other two groups. And so, again, the fringes win.
Yes, there are weasel politicians who will jump at the opportunity to give more power to themselves and big corporations even if a poor right wing factory worker in East Germany hates big tech surveillance. Yes, you'll find people who prefer the convenience of G Street View and are willing to give up some of their privacy for that.
But there will be people who see this as one more concession to the surveillance state, so they will fight it. Give an inch and they'll take a mile. Germans remember this from Nazi Germany, WW2, and the mass surveillance of East Germany (and some now have even more paranoia after the COVID lockdowns).
So no, I don't think you'll have too many people who are seriously upset about Google "scanning" the whole country but are happy about having cameras everywhere and governments installing spyware onto our phones.
Satellite images won't show private areas. It's even hard to tell anything significant about the area besides that something is there.
> Or cameras getting installed everywhere
They follow privacy laws, don't record private areas, and are not public accessible. There are also generally less security cameras in Germany than in similar countries AFAIK.
Nowadays 15 cm (pan-sharpened from 30cm) commercial imagery of 100% of German land is readily available to any buyer who has the money. And there is even better imagery available to the major intelligence agencies.
So 100% of private areas in Germany, viewable from above, are already under observation 24/7 to a resolution capable of distinguishing chairs from people from dogs from umbrellas, etc...
As for the encryption debate, the difference is that it is literally that, a democratic debate. There's still a difference here between trade-offs being made for national security or policing, and private firms just running circles around you to make more dollars. The latter will always cause more anger.