I understand that privacy isn't important to you, but you are wildly different from almost everyone else.

Do you really think that being gay or an atheist or reading Marx is a "wrong thing" that you should "live with the consequences of"?

But in about half of America, these are secrets that would destroy your life and career.

Your idea also that if you once committed a crime, no matter how minor or how victimless, then your life needs to be permanently awful because every single employer gets to know about it for the rest of your life -- this idea isn't just cruel, it's economically horrible as it destroys people's earning potential.

I'm a very law-abiding guy, and yet simple possession of LSD or mushrooms is a felony in the USA. In a parallel world, I did hard time because some cop searched me thirty years ago and found ten hits of acid, and I was never able to be employed again.

For decades of my life, consensual homosexual acts were punishable with hard time in a considerable portion of the United States. I'm not gay, but I strongly sympathize with people who are.

Our right to privacy in the EU is ensconced in the European constitution: https://www.coe.int/en/web/impact-convention-human-rights/right-to-privacy

A little empathy for other people, regular people who can't just wander off to another country at will, people who make mistakes or don't even make any mistakes but just need to hide parts of their lives or be destroyed, would go a long, long way