Don't try. There is no way to protect yourself from our absurd German privacy laws. (Except if you are the government, then nothing matters.) Even the local residents' registration offices simply sell your private data for next to nothing to cheap ad companies.

..but if you are an US company, we hate you for the votes.

Don’t worry, Weichert is suing the government, too ;)

And the parliament of SH relies on the fact that mass surveillance will have to be cancelled, too, as it violates several data protection laws.

The constitutional court struck down the mass surveillance laws already two times, they’ll do it again.

And yes, I was one of the people protesting on the street against the new laws regarding Melderegisterzugriff

I guess he's saying the box can't be checked by default. It has to be opt-in and not opt-out.

Whether or not this is true in Germany is something I don't know.