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but what would Schufa have to do with it?
by rawbot 4y ago
but what would Schufa have to do with it?
- expertentipp 4y ago[flagged]
- martijnvds 4y agoTV license is basically just another tax, right? And what do you mean by the second part? As far as I understand private data in Germany is _very_ private, or it would be a violation of the "Datenschutz" (data protection) laws.
- expertentipp 4y agoYou register at Meldebehörde, the letter from Rundfunkbeitrag arrives. Then another one. Increasingly apeshit letters. To every person in the household.
- 9dev 4y agoWell... that's kind of the deal with public broadcast fees in Germany. I also think the way it's collected is pretty weird, but that doesn't make the Rundfunkbeitrag a bad thing in general. You seem to be rambling about a lot of different things here, conflating some of them entirely unrelated to privacy laws: If you get caught torrenting a torrent poisoned by a private law firm, that hasn't got anything to do with German legislation. Schufa, on the other hand, claims to operate under existing DSGVO/GDPR law (even though that may be invalidated eventually); and other than the Rundfunkbeitrag, I'm not aware of any data sharing between the Meldebehörde and "public media", whoever that is.
- martijnvds 4y agohttps://www.rundfunkbeitrag.de/datenschutz/datenschutz_beim_beitragseinzug/index_ger.html#auf_welcher_rechtsgrundlage_zu_welchem_zweck_werden_die_daten_verarbeitet https://www.rundfunkbeitrag.de/datenschutz/datenschutz_beim_... There are laws that govern this. It's not some shady business.
- catslovepie 4y agoCalling public media cunts already gives me an idea what kind of person you are. Rundfunkbeitrag has to be paid by every household by law and is meant to ensure independent reporting by the public media, especially independent from political parties or corporations. We can argue how well this works in Germany, but there are quite a lot of examples around the world where it's way worse.
- PurpleRamen 4y ago> TV license is basically just another tax, right? Technically it's not, which is why there is private company collecting it. > As far as I understand private data in Germany is _very_ private, or it would be a violation of the "Datenschutz" (data protection) laws. Yes and no. The company is infamous for doing sketchy things, buying addresses here and there, including getting them from public sources, and this is not even illegal to some degree.
- DocTomoe 4y ago> Technically it's not, which is why there is private company collecting it. Technically it is a "öffentlich-rechtliche, nicht rechtsfähige Gemeinschaftseinrichtung", and not a private company.
- Arnt 4y agoGuessing: GP did something, lost a copyright case in court, had to pay, didn't pay, and that's a "did not pay debts" entry in the Schufa database.
- expertentipp 4y agoDouble negative. Ticked the "bugger off" answer to the yellow envelope and Schufa simply infinitely pisses me off. With omnipresent requirement for Schufa report and how they upsell their useless predatory subscriptions on attempt to obtain the free report.