Big brother: Germany s foreign intelligence service under pressure
Germany s foreign intelligence agency (BND) screens hundreds of millions of emails annually. The European Court of Human Rights is now looking into this practice.
German data protection activists are wary of the BND s trawling of content online
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has admitted a Reporters Without Borders (RSF) complaint claiming that people are not properly protected against groundless and unjustified mass surveillance by Germany s foreign intelligence service, the BND.
The admission of the complaint on a European level opens up the possibility, of finally remedying this untenable abuse of law, said Christian Mihr, executive director of the RSF, an international organization that represents the interests and safety of journalist worldwide.
(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 14 - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg on Thursday condemned Italy for violating the rights of a grandmother to keep in touch with the granddaughter she was entrusted as a child.
The judges said this violation was not the result of discrimination against the woman because her husband s family belongs to the Roma ethnic group.
It said, rather, that in Italy there was a systemic problem on this type of case.
The verdict came on an appeal by the grandmother, Emilia Terna, in June 2018.
In the suit, she said she had been unable to re-establish contact with her granddaughter, who had been entrusted to social services, despite years of trying.
Romania’s Supreme Court has sentenced mining magnate Beny Steinmetz to five years’ imprisonment in a land-fraud case, according to Israeli media.The businessman, who has counted diamond mines among his vast interests, was accused of being involved in corruption carried out by a company for.