> 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

> 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.