Treating "Germany" as one monolithic entity that can thereby be accused of hypocrisy, is a childish oversimplification. Nations are composed of myriads of grou

Treating "Germany" as one monolithic entity that can thereby be accused of hypocrisy, is a childish oversimplification. Nations are composed of myriads of groups, people, interests - some support gov't surveillance, and some who don't. In this case, Bundestag's Digital Agenda committee chairman, declared Apple to be on a "dangerous path", whereas the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) purchased access to NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. It is no more surprising to see these two units taking opposite positions than if we were to learn that Donald Trump and Joe Biden had opposite views on some topic. The title and conclusion of this article is uninteresting.