> WW2 legacy resulted in two major additions to the foundations of new Germany: spying on citizens is highly regulated
How does it reconcile with it taking nearly 17 years for Germany to outlaw BND from wiretapping DE-CIX?
How does it reconcile with it taking nearly 17 years for Germany to outlaw BND from wiretapping DE-CIX?
The state has other laws that regulate its ability to spy on its citizens.
And if those laws become too cumbersome you can always ask a free friendly nation to do your spying for you, and get the info from them. And then cross your fingers that the judiciary will follow yout reasoning when you are found out.
We allow the state to levy taxes, expropriate, imprison, and even kill (war, death sentence) because we have democratically decided that it was necessary for the organisation of our society.
https://netzpolitik.org/2015/how-the-german-foreign-intellig...
> How does it reconcile with it taking nearly 17 years for Germany to outlaw BND from wiretapping DE-CIX?
He said only that "is regulated". This is the same like "CIA/NSA/FBI must obey the law". They actually do what they want. (Now the NSA is wiretapping DE-CIX and giving the info to BND)
And while one of the lessons of Nazi Germany is keeping the secret services on a tight leash, that leash has become longer and longer during the cold war. Nowadays, I do not think there is any effective control of Germany's secret services anymore.