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European countries from privacy and freedom perspective (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey-ho, privacy enthusiasts

I'm currently traveling around the world, and thinking about staying in Europe for 5ish years

But i'm a tinfoil guy and aware of the "many eyed beast"

So, what do you think? All lies and everything is actually dystopian, or everything should be fine?

I'm actually thinking about 4 countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece (because don't like cold, and actually a little bit sick of other countries in the EU😅😅😅)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here in Spain there’s minimal surveillance outside the big cities. My town (circa 40K residents) has no public cameras in town (I lived in the UK and they were everywhere).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Get it, get it

But cameras are not the only concern, what's about internet traffic analysis, piracy, ability to rent something or get some service like sim or home internet without documents and stuff

Or even transportation, like busses, trains, etc

Don't get me wrong, i'm asking so I can have a better picture of how the stuff really works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha

Internet is somewhat restricted but only the most common sites are blocked

Renting requires ID - passport or Spanish ID, same with Internet or a SIM card

Transportation there’s no ID requirements on buses and trains

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Renting requires ID - passport or Spanish ID

Does the landlord register the people that rent the place?

or a SIM card

How common is someone selling preregistered sim cards?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

~~I don't think you can a sim card anonymously in europe. You might be able to find some online, though I have no idea:~~

~~- how legal they are~~

~~- if they function at all/normally~~

~~At least in my country ( which isn't one you listed ) you cannot buy an anonymous SIM card in shops due to some anti terrorism law ( iirc ).~~

~~I thought it was like that for the whole of Europe, but I could be wrong.~~

Apparently there are still EU countries where you can buy anonymous SIMs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Countries like the Czech Republic still offer anonymous SIM cards. Though we do have a telecommunication cartel here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Depends on the landlord - some are dodgy and won’t register you because they don’t declare the income

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You can buy Romanian cards on eBay , Vodafone works fine in Spain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

https://idm.net.au/blog/002646two-years-european-isp%E2%80%99s-data