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fluxusarstoday at 9:57 AM1 replyview on HN

If you really believe the UK is a privacy-friendly and anonimity-friendly country then you have definitely been brainwashed. I can't think of a first-world country that's worse than the UK in this.


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KaiserProtoday at 10:01 AM

The nuance here is that only the state can deanonymise you[1], in the USA you can just pay a data broker. Sure the UK is the boogeyman here, but the reason why the federal government isn't making a fuss is because they already have the legal rules to force a backdoor.

[1] there are caveats, but the crucial point is its a legal process, rather than bidding war.