Posted on 09/02/2016 8:11:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The BND, Germany’s version of the CIA, has been accused of massive breaches of the constitution in a leaked report by the government’s representative for data protection.
“The BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst] systematically lifted and used personal data without a legal basis to do so,” wrote Federal Data Protection Commissioner Andrea Voßhoff in a report seen by public broadcasters NDR and WDR.
Voßhoff is responsible for ensuring that government agencies do not infringe on German citizens’ legal rights when using their personal data. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...
Drink beer, sing songs, oppress people, invade Belgium...
It’s just Germans having a good time.
An out of control German secret police. What could possibly go wrong?
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Sounds like the most recent season of “Homeland.”
Are they spending most of their time monitoring Muslims or anti-immigrant groups? Since the article mentions that they got some of their phone lists from the NSA, I’d like to believe it’s the former.
The way to scare Germans into compliance ON ANYTHING is threaten them with memories and fears of Staatssicherheit - the Stasi...
I’m with you - they’re probably going after citizen who to dare to stand up to their version of Hillary - the German witch Merkel.
Major Hochsteader?
The stasi were pikers. Every two days, the NSA collects the data that the stasi amassed over its 40 year history....900 million to a billion pages.
You just have to ask yourself if the NSA’s bulk data collection was for the former or the latter to figure out the answer.
Just imagine the Stasi having the NSA’s technology.
and the NSA collects data on Germans and the German equivalent collects data on Americans—and then they swap the data.
See, no domestic spying to be found anywhere here!
True, but stasi tortured their own citizens and our CIA only does that to foreigners)- enemy combatants and all...
They’d better start “spying” on the Islamic warriors that are busy killing their country and forget about us.
You are kidding yourself if you think numerous lives aren’t destroyed by our mass domestic surveillance. Our intel is not some benign data gathering group.
And it is mostly aimed squarely at us, not at terrorists. That should be unmistakably clear to everyone by now.
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