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lysium on May 31, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burne...

You are not allowed to make a photocopy of the personal ID document. It contains data about your electronic signature.

jacalata on May 31, 2013 [–]

I really meant 'who says so?' It sounds like an unusual restriction, and when I tried googling it I couldn't find any mention of this.

lysium on June 4, 2013 | [–]

Its in Section 14 of the relevant law:

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswg/__14.html

(in German, obviously)

It says who is allowed to 'process' the relevant information from the document. Copying is not mentioned.

The German Wikipedia has a section on it: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalausweis_(Deutschland)#K...

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