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Does Germany not have judicial review of these kinds of police requests?

• maweki 8y ago
  As far as I understand, every request has to be done with judicial approval, which is given every time since there's no mechanism to check for effectiveness after the fact and most judges have no clue how broad the request might be (and the police will certainly not dwell on that fact).
  • VectorLock 8y ago
    So the opposite of a blank check.
    • Dylan16807 8y ago
      "Approved every time without knowing how big and having no review process." is exactly like a blank check. You seem to be implying that needing to go get blank checks with no meaningful questions asked makes something not a blank check. But that's exactly how checks work. They're pieces of paper after all. This situation is more like blank checks than if they had 24/7 access to the entire database.