End of NSA dependence: A draft law provides for the BND to store internet content en masse and penetrate the systems of Google & Co.

https://archive.is/zlIL0

This emerges from a draft law, which NDR, WDR, and Süddeutsche Zeitung are reporting on again. The powers of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) are to be extended as if the Snowden revelations had never happened. The foreign intelligence service could thus act more independently

The plans are also explosive in the area of active cyber espionage. Under the heading “Computer Network Exploitation”, the BND is to receive another official license to hack. If US tech giants like Google, Meta, or X do not cooperate with requests, the BND would be allowed to penetrate their systems secretly. This would even apply to IT infrastructures within Germany, provided it is necessary to defend against hostile cyberattacks. The line between domestic and foreign intelligence gathering would thus be difficult to maintain.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 days ago

    End of NSA dependence

    If US tech giants like Google, Meta, or X do not cooperate with requests, the BND would be allowed to penetrate their systems secretly.

    I’ll take it.

    The powers of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) are to be extended

    This would even apply to IT infrastructures within Germany, provided it is necessary to defend against hostile cyberattacks. The line between domestic and foreign intelligence gathering would thus be difficult to maintain.

    Or maybe not…

    Roughly 10 years ago people talked a lot about Big Data and how it maybe isn’t the best solution to Everything™. What happened to that? Oh yeah, the AI hype, cheap storage etc.