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"I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" = "I don't care about free speech because I have nothing to say"

People in the Nordic countries have a different expectation of privacy. Just search for the plethora of papers in economics and finance that use "Swedish/Danish/Finnish data". While anonymized, you can get a look at spending and investment of the whole population. After you move to a new place, you get a personalized onslaught of mail welcoming you the neighbourhood. Everything you do is connected to the personnummer (social security number), including loyalty cards in shops.

Specifically anything that anyone can or has at one point considered sinful, I would buy with cash:

- Alcohol - Cigarettes - Drugs - Condoms - Feminist literature - Anti-feminist literature - Ammunition - Guns - Bible - The Koran - Marx’s The Capital - Low cut dress