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by ginko 3168 days ago
> You mean like the European countries where you must have an id card that has race and region and the number of kids you have on it.

What European countries would those be? The only country I even know of that tracks 'race' in census data is the US.

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Germany the id card data base holds a lot of very personal data
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.