Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago

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By law, every adult German must have ID, and Germany even has voter ID. It sounds like something straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but just how bad is it really?

Chapters:
00:00 Orwellian?
00:27 The identity card
01:10 Registered address
02:16 Voter registration
03:04 Other uses
04:26 To have, not (necessarily) to carry
05:31 Public transport
05:57 Stopped by police
06:48 Foreigners
07:14 Government databases
09:02 Speaking personally


Music:

"Midnight Trace"
by Jimena Contreras
YouTube Audio Library

"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence

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