Or have to go through great lengths to escape.
In my country you can’t buy any medicine without showing your ID… I mean, you technically can, but if you are registered they “give” like an 80% discount, so everyone thinks it’s a great deal, not realizing that’s the normal price, they are just pretending you can still go and buy a simple cold medicine without sharing your ID, phone, email, and street address with the drug store and whoever they decide to sell that information to, you just have to pay absurdly more. Yeah, you can lie about all the other information, but not really about your ID number. Probably soon, to get the “discount”, you are going to have to verify your email or phone number as well.
In my country it’s just KYC, mostly services, banks and government. The rest is pretty private. Sure, there are cameras all over the city, government and private, but nothing like the Flock bullshit in the US. The cameras here are centralized in the 911 HQ, and no government institutions or police have acres to private cameras.