Big brother: Germany′s foreign intelligence service under pressure | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW
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 comp...