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Well... I suspect German Datensparsamkeit is only a figment of the utterly ridiculous digital infrastructure of the german governments, both federal and state ones. Most processes are still carried out via paper or fax (fax!), you have to show up personally for the most insignificant things, every single village has their own records (practically never digital), and every time the government attempts to make a stab towards more digitalisation, big corps waste billions on giant projects that never get finished - we had the attempt to get health insurance (mandatory here) cards with an NFC chip on them that would securely store medical records and grant online access to your data; finally, no more carrying X-Ray CDs from MD to MD or filling out registration forms at the doc. But of course, 10 years later, everyone has a new card, but you can't do anything with it. Someone has earned a lot with it though.

So, all in all, it's not that Germany's government is so privacy conscious, but we're simply stuck in a pre-digital world with no reasonable way to share data.