Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
by SiempreViernes on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:44AM
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GDPR has national security exemptions dude...
I know that. So it doesn't necessarily apply to governments.
Since when Germany's spy agency has been a government ?
Also see the much controversed "legitimate interests" exemption to GDPR that has been carried over from the 1995 EU directive.
If it's not part of the German government, they have a larger problem.
My point is that Europeans overall are more comfortable with government snooping, and less comfortable with snooping by private interests, than Americans are. In practice, of course, American government agencies snoop far more than European ones do, but the American ones must be more covert about it.
This, for example:
> Germany's spy agency can monitor major internet hubs if Berlin deems it necessary for strategic security interests, a federal court has ruled.
> In a ruling late on Wednesday, the Federal Administrative Court threw out a challenge by the world's largest internet hub, the De-Cix exchange, against the tapping of its data flows by the BND foreign intelligence service.
> The operator had argued the agency was breaking the law by capturing German domestic communications along with international data.
> However, the court in the eastern city of Leipzig ruled that internet hubs "can be required by the federal interior ministry to assist with strategic communications surveillance by the BND".
https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-spy-agency-keep-tabs-inter...