Maybe in Germany your data is more protected than in the United States.
Here, you can find out a highly detailed information about people for very little money.
My 17 year old daughter met a "boy" online, they became close friends and spent 100s of hours playing xbox together during covid shutdowns. He sent her a gift, I intercepted this, of course, got his name and signed up for a background check service for the mere price of $9.99/month.
Long story short; she was talking to a 27 year old felon from Florida, who had completely convinced her they should be together, and he was planning to visit her.
I found out everything about the guy, and I mean everything. It is amazing what you can do when you combine paid, online background check services with traditional online searches on Facebook and such.
Confronting him with what I knew, who I knew he knew, and the fact that I knew every detail about his legal on-goings, even though this person lived 2000 miles away, seemed to scare him more than any threat I could ever make. I never heard from him again. The 12 gauge remained nicely mounted above the couch.
In the US, nothing is private. If someone wants to know everything about you, they can.
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