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Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by marginalia_nu on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:18AM (#35372224)
It's a bit complicated.

Germany still has living memory of the DDR and Stasi, and the revelation of their extensive surveillance is very much a culturally formative event in Germany and its sphere of influence.

Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by aa-jv on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:36AM (#35372480)
Germany's intelligence services answer to the CIA. They do not answer to the German people or their representatives.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by fsflover on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:45AM (#35372614)
Any credible references?
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by thenaturalist on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:33AM (#35373273)
You are going back in time, to the origins of the BND, post WW2 and into the Cold War.

Does it seriously surprise you that Germany as the aggresor that lost the war, became a border country to the Soviet block with a large US military presence was influenced by the CIA or other US intelligence services?

It does not surprise me to the least.

I don't think your argument is particularly strong though if all you present to make your point are well documented historic facts going back 50-70 years.

You're missing a whole lot between those times and today.

Last reference to the CIA in your first link is that the German gov. expelled several high ranking CIA officers post the mid 2010s NSA leaks.

So where are you deriving the notion from that, today, the CIA controls the BND?

Give us facts, posts, experts, discussions, anything. And recent.

Not just an opinion.

Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by aa-jv on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:21AM (#35420238)
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by marginalia_nu on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:17AM (#35373060)
There's a lot more weird shit, like the Rosenholz files mysteriously ending up with the CIA.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by hef19898 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:29AM (#35373222)
You keep claiming that. And it is plain wrong.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by martijnvds on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:37AM (#35372491)
GDPR is basically the German privacy law, EU-ified.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by PurpleRamen on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:46AM (#35372618)
IIRC GDPR is even weaker than the German law. EU-regulations usually only define the lower ceiling, and it's up to countries to go with it, or improve it even further.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by kiviuq on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:47AM (#35372639)
Gestapo, DDR, Stasi and ALG II/Hartz4 ;)