I only know western countries but from those I’d say Germany and Switzerland.
It’s highly respected in Germany to have a low online profile - pay in cash, stay off online systems.
I feel it’s similar in Switzerland - just with military training, more guns, mined bridges and nazi gold.
The current german government is trying to build a surveillance state and force chat apps into adding backdoors to their encryption and the culture is shifting for the worse with stuff like tiktok still growing.
Right now I’d say switzerland is better in the privacy department (and a few other ones, but that’s beside the point).
To be honest. If you’re online you should expect to be compromised. If you want to be privacy obsessed- focus on countries that allow you to be offline. That is an aspect Germany and Switzerland are a bit unique.
By comparison Scandinavia has a high degree of trust in government and everything is online and connected. It’s convenient but also - if you do not trust your data on the government’s hands - you’re not gonna like it here.
Germany allows you to be more … disconnected.
If the past two decades have shown me anything, it’s that I definitely don’t want my data in any government’s hands.
How is scandinavia more connected? I know cash is dying out everywhere but here and that everyone’s earnings are public, but those aren’t too important to me. Private communication and browsing (and generally not being spied on) are what I mostly care about.
