Overtourism

The limit on tourists visiting Soain's Atlantic Islands National Park

Requires every visitor to give name and national ID number (or passport number). And the only way to apply is on a web form.

This is one more little brick in a wall of Orwellian surveillance, imposed gratuitously.

It would be very little work to sell permits at some physical stores and avoid the surveillance. But once a country gives everyone a national ID number, every activity's managers find it convenient to add another brick to the wall of Orwellian surveillance. It comes to seem "normal", so no one hesitates to impose this on everyone else.

Contrast Spain's park with the Boston Aquarium, which I visited recently. It sells entry tickets for specific times, and encourages people to buy them by internet — but you can go there and buy a ticket for whatever future slots are available. I did that anonymously, paying cash.

This shows the need to organize to demand the right to be anonymous.