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It must be nice to live in a country that gives even 1 single shit about your privacy.

Certainly not the UK: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/uks-secret-apple-icloud-ba...

Here's a nice quote from the former (2019-2023) UK Defense Secretary: "well for one the people who love encryption most are pedophiles." https://x.com/BenWallace70/status/1892972120818299199

The UK is one of the most surveiled nations in the world.

over 942,562 CCTV cameras are in operation across London alone..

https://www.tnssolutions.co.uk/post/how-much-of-london-is-co...

One camera for every ten people, vs in the USA that (in 2019/2020) had 1 camera for every 4 people.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/9/21002515/surveillance-cam...

Something that most Americans perhaps don't get in this debate on privacy - the rest of the world actually cares more about surveillance capitalism by private mega-corps vs the personal / national security oriented government surveillance.

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