This is actually really ironic. When the government wants to charge you for the "non-tax" obligatory TV fee they get your data automatically from your local ci

This is actually really ironic. When the government wants to charge you for the "non-tax" obligatory TV fee they get your data automatically from your local citizens' office. You cannot protect your data from that. But when you want to claim unemployment, suddenly you need to physically pass printed pages of paper between different offices because they cannot exchange data due to data protection rules. These sort of idiosyncrasies are a commonplace in the Federal Republic.