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Yeah, the Schufa is really a horrible system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa

It’s proprietary, cost money, is almost impossible to avoid if you want to rent an apartment in Germany. And they have been found to have A LOT of incomplete, outdated, or wrong data.



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