You are grossly uninformed. Some EU countries even encoded in their own constitution how the state neither has the right to gather specific types of data on their population, such as race and political affiliation, but also they can't gather data that can used to track people, such as cross-referencing data across ministries.
Please provide any substance to your personal assertion.
You are painfully uninformed. In the most charitable interpretarion of what you're mindlessly saying, at best you're talking about things like in which town you pay municipal taxes and where you vote. Neither have anything whatsoever to do with privacy.
And you are still yet to provide any substance to your personal assertion.
> Then on top of requiring the state knows, you have an expectation of privacy.
You are throwing wild unsubstantiated claims. Either you add specifics or you're just spewing disinformation.
- how do you measure the size of a bureaucracy
- what is the size of EU's bureaucracy
- what make it qualify as enormous, or compared to what
Failing that, stop parroting right wing memes.