Random Anger

Today the German Cabinet passed a law that allows federal police to observe private computers and living space using illegal tools – no judical resolution required. This is against the German Constitution (Grundgesetz) but nevertheless they finally decided to restrain our right, just to protect us. This really reminds of American conditions, where people already live under a general suspicion. Now it seems, we finally made it too. All telecomunication data is stored for at least 6 months to track and record what people do.
This is, at the moment, only a counterterrorism act, but experience shows, once you have a tool like that, you slightly change the wording from “terrorist” to “criminal” and “threat” to “delict” … and here we go, a tool to track every filesharer . Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »