[freeflight]

> In addition, every time a company runs a credit check on me, the credit reporting company must snail mail a copy of my credit report to my physical address.

Wow, that's really user-friendly, I wish it would be handled like that in Germany too.

Instead, German registration offices are selling citizen registration data in bulk to most interested parties and they couldn't even tell you to whom [0].

People can opt out of that process, by handing in a written objection with their initial registration, tho barely anybody actually does that because barely anybody is aware of their data being sold in the first place.

[0] https://www.golem.de/1010/78398.html