Comment by Aloisius

> It happens that they're all from the US except TikTok's ByteDance and Booking.com. It was probably _designed_ for that.

Booking.com is owned by an American company.

> In the EU, to have pretty strong memory of people doing bad things with extensive databases

Lack of databases didn't stop "people" from doing bad things. They built the databases, rather quickly, while they were doing bad things.

I find it bizarre that the response to trying to prevent the rise of another fascist European government was to avoid collecting data as if a populist fourth Reich wouldn't ignore the law and use neighbors to rat out neighbors again. Not that I believe for a second any European country doesn't keep far more extensive records on citizens than the Nazis did when they came to power.