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Lately this needs to become it's own category. Again.

This type of regulation does not work. It's a threat to freedom and democracy. No more!

Hier finden Sie das Abstimmungsverhalten Ihrer Abgeordneten.

Peinliche Niederlage: wie hätten sie besser sagen können: "Ihr habt Recht und wir die Macht"?

An impression of the current state of affairs.

Via Bruce Schneier. For those who really want security.

Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble demonstriert unglaubliche Inkompetenz

Vorgeblich zur Terrorbekämpfung werden weitere Bürgerrechhte aufgegeben.

Ein Vorhaben begrenzt Rechtsstaatlichkeit auf Papier.

Floyd Rudmin, a professor at a Norwegian university, applies the mathematics of conditional probability, known as Bayes' Theorem, to demonstrate that the NSA's surveillance cannot successfully detect

That's going to become interesting! We did not have so much survilance behind the iron wall.

Via Heise (german)

Überwachungsrichtlinie tritt in Kraft.

That's what it appears we are up against, folks. Real-time semantic data monitoring on a huge scale. A scale beyond what most of us can even comprehend.

Federal Parliament passed a law that allows the Government to read private emails, text messages and other stored communications without our knowledge. The power extends to innocent people, called B-p

Because it's legal there. (As legal as it was in communist time here.)

Who should use it, while other agencies capture people "accidentally"?