Germany has placed the far-right AfD under surveillance for posing a threat to democracy, local media reported Wednesday, dealing a blow to the anti-immigration party in a big election year.
German data protection authorities
said Wednesday they fined the Swedish clothing chain more than €35 million over illegal 'surveillance' of its employees.
The popularity rating of Alternative for Germany (AfD) has fallen after Germany’s intelligence agency stepped up surveillance of the party, a new poll shows.
As two youth wings of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are dissolved and politicians call for the whole party to be put under surveillance by authorities, we analyze what's going on.
On Tuesday, Bavarian politicians are voting on a police law described as the most intrusive in Germany since the Nazi era. The Local took to the streets of Munich to find out why the proposed powers are causing such a fuss.
The Bundesnetzagentur is treating smart toys as if they are nefarious spying instruments when they are actually useful devices that help parents stay in touch with their little ones, argues Nick Wallace.
Germany’s Interior Minister wants to force tech and car companies to provide the German security services with hidden digital access to cars, computers, phones and more, according to a media report from Friday.
Data protectionists have accused the federal government of deceiving volunteers with their new facial recognition software at a Berlin train station. But the Interior Ministry has rejected these claims.
A Berlin train station on Tuesday became the first to test out software that will automatically recognize faces in an effort to fight terrorism. But not everyone sees the project as positive.
Germany on Thursday passed a controversial new law that expands the power of authorities to spy on the content of encrypted message services such as WhatsApp and Skype.
Should Germany's spy agencies be allowed to watch over minors radicalized by extremist Muslim clerics? That was the question being discussed by interior ministers on Tuesday.
After a marathon sitting lasting the whole week, the German parliament (Bundestag) agreed upon a law on Friday that will relax restrictions on video surveillance in shops, stadiums and stations.
The Interior Ministry has proposed a new law that would allow authorities to more easily read the personal cell phone data of asylum seekers whose identities are hard to prove.
Angela Merkel famously said there should be no "spying among friends" amid the initial Edward Snowden NSA leaks. But then it emerged that Germany, too, had helped the NSA spy on its allies. On Thursday she faces a parliamentary grilling.
A case brought by opposition parties to shed light on the spying collaboration between Germany and the American NSA was rejected by Germany's highest court in a decision made public on Tuesday.
The Interior Ministry is drafting a law which will enable public spaces to be filmed for surveillance purposes as a reaction to deadly attacks in July, according to a newspaper report.
Spies should have the right to keep communications data relating to minors aged under 16, a senior member of Germany's domestic intelligence service has said.
Germany's highest court on Wednesday struck down key planks of an anti-terror law, saying they violated privacy protections enshrined in the constitution.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency targeted France's foreign minister Laurent Fabius for surveillance as well as members of their own diplomatic service, German media reported on Wednesday.
Spies at Germany's BND foreign intelligence service snooped on the communications of friendly states' embassies and government offices, including EU members and the USA, as recently as 2013, media reports claimed on Wednesday.
An anti-spying organisation used a drone to drop leaflets over an NSA complex in southern Germany last week, hoping to persuade spooks to choose another line of work.
The German government was once again accused of lying by media on Thursday about spying by German security services on targets designated by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
