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Die Verharmloser
“The harmlessers.” Pejorative hurled in June 2013 at ruling-coalition German politicians who said the U.S.A.’s spying on domestic and international emails, phone calls, video chats, text chats and...
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Schwachstellen in Sicherheitsprodukte einbauen
“Building in vulnerabilities in security products,” one of several methods the N.S.A. and G.C.H.Q. used to unlock encryption methods previously thought secure, according to the Guardian.co.uk,...
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Ohne uns nichts
“Without us, nothing.” Since the George W. Bush administration, the former U.S. phone monopoly AT&T appears to have provided cooperation in constitutionally questionable surveillance projects to...
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Null Null Sieben
The 007 license plate of the car that dropped off Chancellor Merkel at the E.U. summit on 24 Oct 2013 in Brussels, where the hot unofficial topic was outrage at revelations about U.S. spying on the...
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Internet-Ausschuss im Bundestag
Happy holidays! The Bundestag announced plans to create its own standing internet committee [ständiger Internet-Ausschuss], responsible for online issues. Though not entirely neglected, the interface...
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Sondergerichte vs. Schwurgerichte
Special courts vs. jury courts (lit. “oath courts” because jurors are sworn in). Apparently Turkey has been under international criticism for years for using special courts [Sondergerichte] to try...
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Ringtausch
A circular exchange. Concept used to describe how intelligence agencies from countries in the Five Eyes alliance kindly spy on the other four countries’ populations so each can say they’re not spying...
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NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss
N.S.A. investigative committee of the Bundestag, which began meeting on 03 Apr 2014. The committee’s chair is Clemens Binninger (C.D.U.), a former policeman. It is tasking itself with investigating the...
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“Wer Grundrechte einschränkt, ist beweispflichtig.”
“Anyone limiting fundamental rights must provide proof.” From former federal data protection officer Peter Schaar’s blog post just before the European Court of Justice announced its groundbreaking,...
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Klopper
Whoppers, what Spiegel.de called the two World-Cup Snowden revelations in its “Eleven Things That Happened While You Were Watching Soccer” article: That most of the Americans whose communications data...
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