It is important enough to the Germans that your data (I.e. that required for your identity card) has strict rules concerning a central storage system. The syst

It is important enough to the Germans that your data (I.e. that required for your identity card) has strict rules concerning a central storage system. The system works per state, hence if I move from one state to another than my data has to be moved from one state to the next. I have a friend that works on this system that moves this data over web services.