Well... 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 Rundfunkbe

Well... 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.