[address-policy-wg] Post Ident / Post Brief

A reality check and a question...

I am wondering how German Citizens are dealing with the fact that *many*
Hotels and other accomodation businesses *require* to take a copy of an
official ID Document, in many cases due to local regulations to establish
and track identity of travellers?

Or is this law only applicable to German Citizens being physically present
in Germany?

Peter Koch wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:24:49PM +0000, Sascha Luck wrote:
> 
> 
>>money-laundering law to verify identity and have therefore a specific
>>exemption from the no-copy law!
> 
> 
> they don't, but that's a common misreading.  At most they are allowed
> to copy the explicit data items they are obliged to collect - with the rest
> covered. </ot>
> 
> My question is who is procedurally required to check the identity and to
> collect (and keep?) the data: the LIR or the NCC.  The latter might not
> be immediately bound by the German law on identity cards.

I think we are mixing two things here:
- the verification of identity (leading to a binary result)
- keeping the stuff in a collection, instead of destroying the input data

> -Peter

And lastly, just as an observation, the service area of the NCC is pretty
much bigger than Germany, the EU, the EECR, or whatever formal tag to use.

So, opening the door to a special mechanism in Germany[1], involving a (now)
private entity, may not be a good idea to begin with; maybe not even in
Germany ;-)

Wilfried.

[1] I presume the special recognition of Deutsche Post is a remnant of the
    fact that in the past it was wholly owned and controlled by the state.
    Is this correct?