I am Italian and I have much fewer reasons to feel like you, but I still do and, although loving the friends I made there, I know I will never again set foot in the USA, since this comes from a culture of surveillance dating back more than a century.
I am actually offering temporary accomodation to any of my friends who may want to try his luck in the EU.
The UK has a CCTV facial recognition system that’s quite massive, we’ve resisted such programs for the most part (a few cities have them but they’re not linked together).
So it’s not like Europe is free of this.
Here most of our camera systems are for our own use only, not for the government, with this giant exception.
I have no idea how regulated it is right now within the EU, outside of GDPR, but surely there are different laws locally. I don’t know if after Brexit something has been added to such laws in the UK, but I must say that even before that it was obvious that the UK LOVED their cameras.
A nationwide network of facial recognition CCTV doesn’t exist in the UK
The UK’s CCTV network has been well known for decades. It is actually nuts.
Railing5132@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Willing to host a small family from the US that absolutely loves your country?
biofaust@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In 52 m2 I can offer a matrimonial bed for a couple visiting to get job interviews for some time, not much more.