Posted on 11/25/2016 11:03:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière is planning a major limitation of privacy rights in Germany, say data protection groups. Germans will no longer have the right to know what data about them is being collected.
A draft law released by the German union for data protection (DVD) this week revealed that the interior ministry was proposing to drastically limit the powers of Germany’s data protection authorities, banning them from investigating suspected breaches of people’s medical and legal records.
As well as expanding video surveillance with facial recognition software, the bill would limit the government’s own data protection commissioners to checking that the technical prerequisites are in place to ensure that doctors’ and lawyers’ files are secure, but it stops them from following up when citizens report concerns that their data has been leaked.
The bill would also shut down citizens’ right to know what data is being collected about them — even by private firms, if releasing that information would “seriously endanger” a company’s “business purposes,” the SZ quoted the draft as saying. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Freedom isn’t free.
Germany is goose-stepping into oblivion.
All this will do is drive out intelligent people to places where this hasn’t happened. If they don’t revolt.
Odds of passing with the SPD, Greens, and Linke Party in opposition? It’ll be either watered-down drastically or just fail entirely.
Crap like this is what makes me hope for a massive Carrington event that destroys technological civilization with EMP.
Ohh it’ll pass, they’ll use it to persecute people who might dare send a text message to a friend complaining about migrants when their daughter gets raped.
It’s an election year coming up in Germany, and virtually no one from the opposition parties wants to give the CDU some free ride on a vote like this. If the SPD folks go in opposition....there simply aren’t enough votes to make this work.
Same issue coming up with pension reform....massive issues with German social security and one of the parties wants a massive change to the system. Opposition will probably prevent that from occurring as well.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière is planning a major limitation of privacy rights in Germany, say data protection groups. Germans will no longer have the right to know what data about them is being collected.
I wasn’t very astute at the time but I knew this much and told him so with laughter: “Your country (not just a phone company) knows every detail of your phone usage as well; THEY JUST DONT TELL YOU!!”
This is the main reason:
Police launched dawn raids across Germany on Tuesday on about 190 mosques, flats and offices linked to an Islamist group after the government banned the organization, accusing it of radicalizing youngsters.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the DWR “True Religion” group had persuaded about 140 people to join militants in Iraq and Syria.
DWR, also known as “READ!” made no reference to the raids on its website and did not immediately respond to a request for comment. De Maiziere said it had several hundred members.
Pictures showed masked police officers carrying away computers and files from properties.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure to harden her line on security after several attacks claimed by Islamic State across Europe, including a bombing and a knifing in Germany that wounded some 20 people in July. She is also under fire for letting in about 900,000 migrants, mostly Muslims, last year.
Some Syrians in Germany say many mosques here are more conservative than those at home, and that they are confronted by Muslims who insist on a literal interpretation of the Koran.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-raids-idUSKBN13A0MY
They dont need to take privacy away from everyone to just go after some terrorists they know already are doing terrorist things. Evidence grants proper warrants.
That’s just a front argument. We all know it.
It is not coincidental the uk just took massive privacy away from their citizens this week. Timing. Context.
Liberal Fascism, the gift that keeps on giving.
Must have been more than 20 years ago; since then phone/internet is all run by private companies in Germany. And the billing is itemized, at least for long distance calls, unless you have some flat rate deal.
It’s a regular Gleichschaltung!
Sounds like the “reason” for the TSA here.
And government is the foe of freedom.
What, the SPD opposed to something like this? Only if it targets them. I don’t see Die Linke opposing.
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