Tag: Wiretapping
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Compensation now finances police wiretapping centre: Leipzig-based company Ipoque causes years of delay
25 people are already employed at a German surveillance centre that has been unused for years. They are now being financed through compensation. It remains unclear when it will start operating. After further massive delays in setting up a bugging…
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Radical thoughts: “Ask the State” publishes court investigation files on the Last Generation
Publishing official documents from criminal proceedings is punishable by law in Germany. “I do it anyway,” says Arne Semsrott. In doing so, he knows the European Court of Human Rights is on his side. On Tuesday, the information platform “Ask…
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German police instructed Tunisia and Egypt on internet surveillance prior to revolutions
The German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) instructed the authorities of multiple North African and Middle Eastern countries in internet surveillance in the years running up to the Arab Spring, according to information released by the German government following…