> And most hilariously, progressive luminaries like Daniel Cohn-Bendit or Volker Beck – which during the 1980s gained political traction by "fighting" against having A NATIONAL CENSUS AT ALL – are nowadays championing throwing out medical-data privacy alltogether and having to hand out your unlocked phone to the police at their whim.

Can you provide some sources for that, I haven't closely followed German politics in recent years (as I've been living overseas), but I'm quite surprised that DCB would champion police search powers like that.