Tag: telecommunication monitoring

New law for telecommunication monitoring entered into force

18. January 2017

A new law for telecommunication monitoring entered into force in the New Year´s Eve in Germany. This law grants the German federal intelligence service (BND) extensive monitoring powers. The BND gets a legal basis for the strategic telecommunication monitoring. The BND is allowed to collect, process and store the dates for six month. Also allowed is a targeted monitoring in hazardous situations, like feared terrorist attacks. The collected data must have an international reference, this means, that the data must been send by foreigners abroad.