post related to my last question about Deutschland-Job-Ticket and avoiding google, a company the transportation authority seems to have a deal with.
Some of you have suggested I download a pkpass file. Great!, let me download something so I can save it to my phone!
Nope, the google icon I pasted in my first post (see here as well) simply redirects me to a google service to CREATE A F&#(#&% ACCOUNT WITH THEM!!
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I just learned what a pkpass file because some of you seem to know this technology, but ain't it an apple technology?
Second question is, how widespread is the use of pkpass in Germany for travel documents and for android devices? I don't know if most of the people answering this question are people not residing in Germany.
And yet another question, if I send an email asking the transportation authority what kind of technology they use for travel documents, if they provide any alternative to google or any way to download the ticket in either pkpass format or any other format that doesn't require me to give my personal data to a data grabber, if they provide plastic travel cards to people that won't allow their data to be used by google, what are the chances they won't ignore me or outright laugh at me?
When I cross the Atlantic I pdf or screenshot the plane ticket. Never had a problem. Why can't this be like that?
Because our highly corrupt, neo-liberal wannabe overlords hate the fact that we have basic privacy and data protection laws.
So every bit of digitalisation with government involvement has to be a non-funtional and totally insecure shit show so they can then lie and pretend that a) we need to remove data protection laws that are to blame for all problems and b) only big tech can do it properly so we really, really need to sell our private data to them (also c) ).
You could at some time print out your ticket (depending on where you bought it) as a QR code . But that meant you wouldn't need to use the DB App which is an insane security and privacy nightmare constantly breaking laws without any consequences. So they needed to limit that option and again lied about how that code can magically not save the info of who is the owner of that ticket (because... you know... basic cryptographic methods don't exist...).
PS: Just so this isn't just purely a rant, here's a list of companies that still allow to get the Deutschlandticket as a chip card to avoid that horrific app.
Some also allow you to download the ticket as .pkpass or even .pdf. Best of both worlds. But since OP has a subsidised (?) ticket iirc, that doesnt help him