Government mistrust in Germany and Korea
The government mistrust in Germany and Korea is not so surprising. Germany still remembers the role of government data collection back in the days when computing devices from Hollerith (also known as IBM Germany) allowed to sort and kill some 6 million Jews and commit a good number of other atrocities. The survivors' tales nicely highlight that secrecy / privacy has its values.
In Korea, you find a very high awareness of technological issues and a nice string of political scandals to illustrate government misuse of data (typically to smear the opposition).
Also, neither country has yet seen a major terrorism attack that could be exploited to instill fear of the 'darknet' (whatever that is). Let's hope it stays that way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
