There have been initiatives to unify the different government services under one account in Germany, however, whenever someone proposes to aggregate all citizen

There have been initiatives to unify the different government services under one account in Germany, however, whenever someone proposes to aggregate all citizen data in one database, a huge outcry ensues. The basic reason is really that no government entity should know too much about a citizen, so that 39-45 will not that easily be repeated. Sort of security by obfuscation. It is in a way similar to the current google story, google trying to unify all its offerings in one account, thereby making the experience much smoother and helpful, and people refusing this because they don't want google to know that much about them.