Posted on 06/03/2018 8:05:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany’s spy agency can monitor major internet hubs if Berlin deems it necessary for strategic security interests, a federal court has ruled.
In a ruling late on Wednesday, the Federal Administrative Court threw out a challenge by the world’s largest internet hub, the De-Cix exchange, against the tapping of its data flows by the BND foreign intelligence service.
The operator had argued the agency was breaking the law by capturing German domestic communications along with international data. However, the court in the eastern city of Leipzig ruled that internet hubs “can be required by the federal interior ministry to assist with strategic communications surveillance by the BND”.
De-Cix says its Frankfurt hub is the world’s biggest internet exchange, bundling data flows from as far as China, Russia, the Middle East and Africa, which handles more than six terabytes per second at peak traffic. …
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There go all the rights of Germans. The East German has found her Stasi.
As if it won't.
The real solution is to simply NOT let the bad people in.
You can have freedom OR liberalized immigration —not both.
That’s why Japan has the very highest-tech anti-terrorism in the world and yet the skies there are not blotted out with buzzing police choppers.
You can very easily go up to cops and ask them directions to various places. They will answer you every time, no grimmacing, bad attitude “That’s NOT our job..!” or bad manners at all to the public.
between the Gestapo and the Stasi, the Krauts have a pretty strong record of keeping tabs on their citizens.
The real reason is to police anti islam speech.
Nazism is alive and well. Goebbels would be proud.
Most FReepers had no problem with this pre-2009. “If you haven’t done anything wrong ...”
They now control the press and the internet
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