Privacy paranoia dramatized

The German Consumers' Union—funded by the German government—has put out a video warning internet users about their privacy under a campaign called Surfers Have Rights. You don't need to speak a word of German to get the gist:

(At the end, the text says: "You do this every day … on the internet." And the shopper is asking simply, "Excuse me, where do I find…? The store clerk needs no translation.)

The German blog Netzpolitik thinks it's a nice video. But Martin Weigert at Netzwertig has real...