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Lots of countries require government ID to activate prepaid SIM cards for this reason (including supposedly privacy-conscious countries like Germany) Some coun
by kalleboo 6y ago
Lots of countries require government ID to activate prepaid SIM cards for this reason (including supposedly privacy-conscious countries like Germany)
Some countries go further and require government ID to sign up for even stuff like social networks (South Korea)
You propose it as a ridiculous conclusion but these are things that democratically-elected governments do.
- yaris 6y agoGood joke about Germany being privacy-conscious. From what I've read about state-of-the-art in Germany it is the most draconian state in EU (now when Britain has left).