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Can you live unwatched in Austria?

Constitutional cash protection debate, banking discretion.

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The privacy scorecard

State surveillance4/5
Facial recognition4/5
No national ID2/5
Data-protection law5/5
Encryption4/5
VPN freedom5/5
Democracy5/5
Free expression4/5
Cash still works5/5
Financial privacy4/5
Crypto freedom4/5
Easy to stay3/5
Off-grid living3/5
7 cameras / 1,000 people press rank #32 ~$2,000/mo national average

Childhood vaccines: recommended, never required

Austria dropped its brief adult covid mandate in 2022 and has never had a childhood one.

If you skip them: Nothing.

Exemptions: Not needed.

Source: Vaccines 2024;12:1296, European survey

Legal & financial exposure

Facts about the law, not a privacy score: whether each one helps or hurts depends on what you are trying to do.

Reports your account balances abroad (CRS)

Extradition treaty with the US

Company ownership is not public

Took the register offline after the 2022 EU Court of Justice ruling.

No mandatory ISP log retention law

No mandatory data retention law is currently in force.

3 of 7 signals are unverified for this country: not shown, rather than guessed.

13 real places in Austria

Facial recognition, Bitcoin friendliness and cost vary by city even inside the same country.

Vienna

~$2,100/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Graz

~$2,100/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Salzburg

~$2,200/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Innsbruck

~$2,250/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Klagenfurt

~$1,850/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Villach

~$2,050/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Steyr

~$2,000/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Feldkirch

~$2,100/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Bregenz

~$2,150/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Zell am See

~$2,150/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Kitzbühel

~$2,350/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Bad Gastein

~$2,050/mo facial recognition unlikely₿ crypto 3/5

Weigh Austria against your own threat model

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Country-level estimates for orientation, not legal advice. Surveillance law changes fast: verify anything you would act on.