| > - You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. By itself this seems fine, but it also seems to bea prerequisite for a lot of life necessities like getting health insurance and a mobile phone number. True. However, this is the case at least in CH and IT as well (in IT you will probably have also a visit from the local police to check that the place is up to some standards), I grow up thinking this was common in EU - isn't it? > If you are in Germany and run a website, you need to have an Impressum on your website that states your address. Kinda: if you run a _commercial_ website. My blog doesn't have my address. > - There is a "Stop and Identify" law (Personalausweisgesetz) that requires you to be in possession of an identity document, and hand it over instantly when asked to by any authorities, with substantial fines for noncompliance. There is no mandate to have the ID card with you in Germany. In Italy there is.
You must provide your identity to the authority over request, but you can also have your ID at home. > - Wi-Fi portals always seem to have a great deal of personal data entry before you can get on the Internet. Apparently there were previously laws that put a great deal of liability on whoever ran a Wi-Fi network, which meant that businesses were naturally loathe to offer one. True and incredibly annoying. Things have slowly improved, but a lot still request too much data. |