One more addendum for the license plate thing. Those cost an extra $10 a year. So, to pronounce oneself a member of the Live Free or Die constituency in Virginia you have to fund more civilization via taxation.
My jaw drops at all the people in certain US Government agencies and bureaus who sport libertarian license plates. Just profound dumbassery and cognitive dissonance between the crap they are infected by politically and their professions.
The EU has a very interesting focus on privacy protection. I see that the UK has done quite a bit to dismantle that now that Brexit has come. This is not a bad thing for people to worry about. But, again Russia . . .