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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by lostboys67 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:54AM (#15499597)
Germany the id card data base holds a lot of very personal data
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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by ginko on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:23AM (#15499864)
Hmm.. looking through what data the German resident register stores[1] there's not too much information I would deem too personal, apart from the religious affiliation maybe. They certainly don't track race as you wrote in your previous post.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melderegister#Inhalt

I gather you're from a country without a resident register?

EDIT: Also you shouldn't mix up the content of a resident register with the information you find on a public ID card. The information printed on those is a lot more limited.

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