Most shops have online presence. You can easily compare the price of tinfoil rolls using Google translate.
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Here in Spain thereβs 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).
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
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 thereβs no ID requirements on buses and trains
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?
~~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.
Countries like the Czech Republic still offer anonymous SIM cards. Though we do have a telecommunication cartel here.
Having read your assumptions about Europe, you'll be pleased to hear that mental healthcare is free in most countries
Wtf?
I wouldn't call him mental ill. Maybe he's a small time crook, sells and smokes weed and has a little bit of paranoia.
Truth be told, in my criminal past (mostly online fraud, but some real life crime too), I have had similar thoughts. But hey, don't do stupid shit in countries which you don't know.
You're mostly correct. But they reason i'm paranoid because I just don't think it's a right thing to spy on people. I'm more kind of a free spirit and share love guy, and I don't like the idea of living in the world of lies being constantly observed
Edit: In addition, you never know what's going to be illegal tomorrow, you don't need anything to hide to feel disgusted about governments spying on people
Depends on your threat model... What do you think could cause problems while traveling through Europe in your opinion?
I know Europe is probably like the best place for digital privacy, but at the same time for me it's unsettling to see that some of the European cities are the most surveiled cities in the world, and how even countries in Europe are trying to ban e2e encryption
Add the 5-9-14 eyes, strict anti piracy rules in some countries, stories about people getting arrested for messaging something, or doing something political, and you will get a pretty grim picture
My main problem with this, I don't like being surveiled, nobody needs to have a thread model against being surveiled, because this is just nuts
Probably my stand is a little bit radical, I usually don't carry a sim card, use Lora for a remote access to my home server, I would never go to the land of free or use any of their services, same with the land of China
Come to Italy then. Our services don't give a fuck unless you're actually a terrorist.
And you can pirate all you want with no repercussions.