German living in Germany > - You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. Yeah. I do not se

German living in Germany > - You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. Yeah. I do not see a problem with that. In fact, I like the idea of an identity being linked to a location, it makes scamming harder. > - If you are in Germany and run a website, you need to have an Impressum on your website that states your address. So you are pretty much auto-doxxed every time you decide to maintain a personal website or blog. I am not sure how much this is enforced. 1. That is not entirely true: purely personal websites do not need an Impressum. 2. This is not enforced by the state, but by competitors (not having an Impressum is considered bad competitive practice). 3. The Impressum makes sense once you understand we treat websites like we treat newspapers (which have similar requirements), or flyers (which also have such requirements). > - There is a "Stop and Identify" law (Personalausweisgesetz) that requires you to be in possession of an identity document, and hand it over instantly when asked to by any authorities, with substantial fines for noncompliance. This is not true. You must own an ID document (either a personal ID card, or a passport). Nowhere does it say you need to carry it around with you. When stopped, you can be held until your id can be verified (which takes about 5 minutes without an ID document, or 3 with one). > - Wi-Fi portals always seem to have a great deal of personal data entry before you can get on the Internet. Apparently there were previously laws that put a great deal of liability on whoever ran a Wi-Fi network, which meant that businesses were naturally loathe to offer one. Hm, whenever I am abroad (UK, France, Spain, Morocco), public WiFi seems to be a lot more restrictive and a lot more nosey than German public WiFi, so YMMV...