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The German Inquiry on Mass Surveillance

The German parliament unanimously decided to have an inquiry on mass surveillance in March 2014. The elections were in September 2013, two months after the first Snowden revelations. (At a later point the huge conservative/social democrat govt. majority in parliament … Weiterlesen

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Naked Citizens – new documentary about surveillance technology

By accident I found this new documentary out about surveillance, police using drones, legally extracting information form phones, FinFisher, CCTV, the NSA, Wikileaks and new trends in surveillance technology: Naked Citizens, Journeyman Pictures. With Jacob Applebaum, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Smári McCarthy, … Weiterlesen

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Hacker News Puzzle

It was good to see how much interest my two posts on details of police surveillance in Germany generated outside the country. In fact much more than in Germany itself. Thanks! I’ll try and post this kind of news more … Weiterlesen

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One year later: German police unable to develop ’state trojan‘

One year after the Chaos Computer Club found and analysed an illegal trojan virus used by German police, the so-called „state trojan“, and one year after the German Federal Minister of Justice, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger had promised „total transparency and clarification“ … Weiterlesen

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German police monitors Skype, GoogleMail and Facebook chat

The German government a while ago answered questions about expenditures by the federal ministry of home affairs for private service providers – hardly noticed by the English speaking world. The parlamentary enquiry („Minor interpellation“) no. 17/10077 by Jan Korte, MP of … Weiterlesen

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Twitter and the resignation of Germany’s minister of defense

Germanys extremely popular minister of defense Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned from office yesterday. There are two or three interesting aspects which make this resignation different from others. The starting point was an article about his doctoral thesis (law) containing … Weiterlesen

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Out now: Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control

New book by Florian Hessdörfer, Andrea Pabst, Peter Ullrich is out, and free for download here or here (pdf). You can also order a copy at your local bookstore. In the book there’s also a chapter by Andrej Holm and … Weiterlesen

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Blogging against surveillance

Sometime in June of this year I wrote this text which was meant to be published in a magazine which eventually never got to the printer (but still might, so they say). Just in case some people who (only) read … Weiterlesen

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Der Internet-Minister oder: Ordering bloggers around is like herding lolcats

Secretary: Part 1 Teil 2 Teil 3 Teil 4 Teil5 by xkcd,

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Eine Million TerroristInnen in den USA

Man fragt sich, warum so intensiv anderswo nach welchen gesucht wird, wenn sie selber soviele haben.. Die US-amerikanische Bürgerrechtsorganisation ACLU hat heute gemeldet, dass inzwischen eine Million Namen auf der Terrorist Watch List der Vereinigten Staaten stehen und ruft Menschen, … Weiterlesen

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