Wow.
What amazes me and other Americans is how many foreigners feel as though their lives are the property, and at the courtesy of, the state.
The government, any government, has always consisted of people. Giving the government information is just like grabbing a megaphone and driving through the neighborhood shouting out one's personal affairs - only on a larger scale.
You and Raoul would probably see nothing wrong with the utopia in Lois Lowry's The Giver.
Europe already treats their aged as if they are already a burden on the state. "Release" is surely on the future agenda after the "sameness" and "efficiency" programs are successfully legislated on all levels.