The Lives of Others Part Zwei.
Posted on 01/30/2015 9:08:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) collects 220 million pieces of information about foreign phone calls and SMS every day, Zeit Online reported on Friday.
According to BND documents seen by journalists, five locations around Germany are used to collect the millions of so-called “metadata” about foreigners’ phone calls.
It is not yet clear where the BND obtains this much data.
But the parliamentary committee at the Bundestag (German parliament) investigating surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) has established that the BND taps satellite communications and internet cables. …
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The Lives of Others Part Zwei.
How about the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
Ministry for State Security
As opposed tour our Department of American Destruction......
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