> a lot of life necessities like getting health insurance and a mobile phone number. For the mobile phone number you must identify yourself, the pretext is ter

> a lot of life necessities like getting health insurance and a mobile phone number. For the mobile phone number you must identify yourself, the pretext is terror-prevention, not sure how true this really is. But usually they just check the passport, the address is not really relevant. > If you are in Germany and run a website, you need to have an Impressum on your website that states your address. You need an Impressum if you run a business, meaning you earn money with it. This could already be the case if you have ads. For a purely private site, an Impressum is unneccessary. > 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 a bit misleading. You need to be able to identify yourself, but not instantly. You can have your documents at home, and they either will ignore you, or drive you home, depending you their reasons and the moonphase, and so on.