It is no longer possible to book train tickets in Germany without providing your verified email or phone number. FYI, all phone numbers are linked to national ID cards in Germany.
https://www.thelocal.de/20230925/everything-that-changes-in-october-2023-in-germany
the change is being made so that DB can directly alert customers about changes to their journeys, for example if a train is running late.
Lol, Deutsche Bahn trains are always late. Are they going to send an SMS to every user for every trip? And then an update SMS when the delay grows?
For a country that lived through the Stazi secret police, this seems like a weird move
Forget Staatssicherheit, now comes ad protection
I hope no one is the Volk though. I hate Baseballschläger.
“will only sell its long-distance savings tickets” so you can still buy non-saving (full price) tickets? A “mobile phone number or e-mail address” - how about using TutaNota, signing up anonymously? Or better yet, how about buying your ticket though proxysto.re (unrealistic?). Not too surprising considering airplane tickets (and pobably better than the TSA theater) , but this feels like another step to mass surveillance. (And Germany is supposed to be an anonymity friendly country: no to Client Side Scanning, the Wir speichern nicht movement, etc.)
Credit card fees will rise […] experts have advised to make everyday purchases with debit cards, Giro / EC cards or cash in Germany
Cash is good, but maybe experts don’t know there is another better option…?
“will only sell its long-distance savings tickets” so you can still buy non-saving (full price) tickets?
The difference is that a savings ticket is bound to a specific train, whereas the full-price tickets have free train choice on the day of the ticket.
“verified email” i guess you can verify a free protonmail or throw-away email services
Didn’t you need to provide your full name beforehand as well? Oh well even if not it still seems easy to have privacy with this still as you can just use any email you want and skip providing your phone number no? Not defending it or anything. It just doesn’t seem like too big of a deal to me.
No. You could have bought a ticket OTC with no personal information.
you can just use any email you want and skip providing your phone number no?
Slippery slope.
. It just doesn’t seem like too big of a deal to me.
Are you even from monero.town instance?
I’m not from this instance I’m sorry. Just saw the post in my feed. I am an occasional user of Deutsche Bahn however, sadly. I do recommend the practice of using a unique email account for every service though. Just good practice
Okay, welcome to monero.town. Requiring an email add is one step away from requiring an email add from a trusted provider. I used to use one time addys for my flight bookings and hotel reservations… it is becoming more and more difficult. I simply do not receive verification links if the email domain is not well known or does not require a PID verification.
welcome to monero.town
if you’re not using 4 vpns, 2 tor exit nodes, 3 layers of pgp, a mexican burner phone paid for by taiwanese gift cards you’re not doing it right
plus this message will selfdestruct in 30 seconds
He forgot to bridge over I2P
NGMI
Meanwhile in the USA you can buy a car from a dealership without a license or insurance and without registering it if you know where the non citizens go.
@simping4xmrchan fucking sucks. Outrageous to know there will be no push-back from the normies. We have a similar situation in Turkiye, too. One cannot travel without the all-seeing eye of the government digital surveillance systems…
Again, there won’t be a push-back by the populace. They are too de-sensitized, made devoid of their agency, and turned into a cattle by the techno-capital’s many forms of brainwashing entertainment systems.
Given this, what else legitimizes the fairy-tale of democracy, then? “Power to the people,” but which of them are willing to use power?
