Security News > 2016 > September > German Federal Intelligence Service violates laws, dodges supervision (Help Net Security)

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been illegally collecting data through mass surveillance tools, storing it in databases that should not exist, and has repeatedly prevented the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) from supervising their actions. A summary and analysis of a classified report, filed after former Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar sent his representatives to inspect the joint BND/NSA-station in Bad Aibling (southern Germany) in the wake … More →

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