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Re:Educated Germans avoid social media by fwn on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:43AM (#10776735)
Germans do happily register every change in their adress to a population register ("Melderegister"), which is also required by the law. This data can (and will) be sold for profit by the administration and an opt-out is only for a limited timeframe.

Germans don't care at all about stuff like this. Instead I bet they would be outraged if a US based company did the exact same thing.

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Re:Educated Germans avoid social media by wolfgke on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @06:12AM (#10777032)
> Germans don't care at all about stuff like this.

No, this is not true. Me and my circles openly disgust that. Only because there is no public outcry doesn't mean they don't care. But indeed it's rather the younger generation that cares about these topics.

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