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. …
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Ja Ein Volksgemineshaft!
I wonder how our laws compare with the proposed German law.
Yes, it was 20 years ago! Man I’m old. ;)
Mail service was for centuries run by by the state. I suppose it made sense back then. At some point telephone service was added to that. It was privatized only in 1996. Took them long enough...
Yeah, we all get older...:-)
Ordinary citizens take it in the neck for their government’s policy of moslem appeasement.
Exactly. But, the Russians passed similar laws couple of yrs ago. The EU, etc just catching up.
The line between so-called democracies and dictatorships has become increasingly very blurred. All since 9/11.
The erosion of civil liberties (i don’t count voting as an indication) isn’t to fight terrorism, only one way to collect info, track & control behavior of the average person. Similar to consumer advertising, marketing and behavior.
The info, collectively too, can also predict social trends and possible outcomes when manipulated. It’s much more insidious than appears.
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