Category: Politics
18-24 May: the headlines on GermanPolicy.com
GermanPolicy.com: past week’s headlines =Covid-19=Merkel: government doesn’t take the easiest wayhttps://lnkd.in/d8SFg-SSteinmeier praises efforts in Corona crisishttps://lnkd.in/d8Sx95vSchäuble: Democracy workinghttps://lnkd.in/d96T-7tMost people in Germany in favor of Corona…
83 percent of Germans use online messengers | GermanPolicy.com
Almost every 16 to 24 year-old in Germany uses online messenger services. This is the result of a survey commissioned by the Federal Network Agency….
New standards for intelligence service | GermanPolicy.com
by Thorsten Koch Patrick Sensburg (CDU), a member of parliament and security expert, supports the SPD’s demands to appoint a Bundestag Federal Commissioner for intelligence…
Mass surveillance abroad by the BND legally inadequate | GermanPolicy.com
by Thorsten Koch The surveillance practice by the federal intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), regarding telecommunications by foreigners, violates fundamental rights. This has been decided by…
German Corona Summit: Continued Social Distancing, Fewer Restrictions, and Regional Responsibility | GermanPolicy.com
The Coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, a globally rampant lung disease, has claimed almost 7,000 lives in Germany, by the beginning of May 2020. But…
Smartphone Tracking, or Contact Tracing | Context
Digital contact tracing creates location trails allowing for a supervising instance to know, in hindsight, whether two people were in proximity at the same time….
Hate Speech Laws and Social Media Companies | Brief
The German government cabinet has passed a tougher stance against hate speech. What makes sense about the legal project, in Germany and elswhere, is to…
Germany. Full Digital Identification of Online Users Impracticable | Context
The German Federal Council is examining whether in Germany, every user of social networks, and every online gamer, ought to be subject to identification requirements….
