Schlagwort: Office for the Protection of the Constitution
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Strike against Radio Dreyeckland: German police now know sources
With the search of the free radio station, authorities obtained large amounts of unencrypted data. The public prosecutor’s office also demanded that the web host hand over the IP addresses of all visitors. All those affected by the search of Freiburg’s Radio Dreyeckland have received their confiscated devices back. This was stated by the managing […]
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Use of Spanish spyware in Germany illegal, Bundestag report says
Spain’s secret service is probably also spying abroad with „Pegasus“. Attacks may have been made in Germany on the former regional president of Catalonia and his Chilean-German lawyer. On 25 March 2018, former regional president of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont was arrested by the highway police in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and temporarily detained. Due […]
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German secret service law does not have to go into the shredder
The Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the domestic secret service violates the principle of separation. The legislature should therefore amend the law The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) is no longer allowed to pass on secretly collected data on individuals to police authorities as it pleases. This […]
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Germany: The state hacks along
With the temporary exception of the Federal Police, all German police agencies and secret services are now allowed to hack into computers and telephones. This is an extremely deep invasion of privacy On 10 June, the Bundestag massively expanded the use of state trojan horse programmes. A bill on the „adaptation of the law on […]