Central Register of Foreign Nationals (Germany)




The Central Register of Foreign Nationals (German: Ausländerzentralregister (AZR)) is a German database, containing personal information about approximately 20 million foreign nationals.[1] Of these, as of February 2009, approximately 4.5 million are EU citizens.[2]


The Central Register of Foreign Nationals provides data to over 7000 authorities and organizations, including police and customs authorities with over 80,000 users.[3]


According to section 26 of the law governing the Central Foreigners Register, personal data stored about individual foreigners in Germany can also be passed to the authorities of foreign states.[4]



History


The predecessor of the Central Register of Foreign Nationals was the Ausländerzentralkartei which was established in 1938 by the Nazi government.[5] In 1953 the Central Register of Foreign Nationals was established.



Criticism


The Federal office responsible for administering the Central Register of Foreign Nationals was awarded a Big Brother Award for their operation of the database, for the given reason of "institutionalized official discrimination of non-German citizens in Germany".[6]



References





  1. ^ "BVA Internet: Ausländerzentralregister". Archived from the original on 10 July 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Federal Government of Germany: Drucksache 16/12569 - Speicherung von Unionsbürgerinnen und Unionsbürgern im Ausländerzentralregister (PDF; 71 kB). 6 April 2009


  3. ^ "Bundesverwaltungsamt - Ausländerzentralregister". bva.bund.de. Retrieved 13 August 2015.


  4. ^ "Gesetz über das Ausländerzentralregister (AZRGesetz)" (PDF). Gesetze-im-internet.de. Retrieved 9 July 2015.


  5. ^ National Approaches to the Administration of International Migration, p. 75, at Google Books


  6. ^ "Lebenswerk: Bundesverwaltungsamt | BigBrotherAwards" (in German). Bigbrotherawards.de. 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2015.











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