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It is desirable for any country to have laws that limit the ways how legal or government entities collect data.

Some of the strictest privacy laws existed in Germany for a reason, because the country new what an SS or a Stasi would do with the data once it gets its hands on it.

Some of the laxest privacy laws are in the US, the country whose businesses supplied the SS[1] and nowadays the CCP[2] with surveillance technology to facilitate genocide.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[2]https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/us-tech-products-080...



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