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The BND (German intelligence agency) has made use of the NSA data. But so far, they're saying it was just for locating German citizens who had been kidnapped ab
by chiph 13y ago
The BND (German intelligence agency) has made use of the NSA data. But so far, they're saying it was just for locating German citizens who had been kidnapped abroad.
- gst 13y agoSimilar (official) reason to why data retention for cell phone location data exists in Austria: To locate mountaineers who got lost in the Alps.
- cygx 13y agoWell, us Germans like to joke that the Swiss are a bit on the slow side, so from them I'd buy keeping data around for 6 months for that reason. But what's your excuse ;)
- 1337biz 13y agoOh, so that's the new narrative for countries that don't buy into the terrorism scaremongering? Is this going to become the new cp? Must have taken quite a few focus groups to come up with that. Once again it is arguing for a policy based on occurrences that happen most likely even rarer than cp or "terrorism" threats. Let's how far they are able to spread the kidnapping myths.