It would be irrelevant, anyway. The G10 Act (which provides the statutory authority for the BND to collect the data) does not differentiate between citizens and

It would be irrelevant, anyway. The G10 Act (which provides the statutory authority for the BND to collect the data) does not differentiate between citizens and foreigners. Also, even assuming that sharing the metadata would be legal according to §7a of the G10 Act [1] (which would already stretching the intent of the law quite a bit), any such sharing would have to be documented and listed in the annual report of the parliamentary commission. Curiously, between 2009-2011, no data was supposedly shared with foreign agencies according to what the parliamentary commission reported. Not that it would surprise anybody to catch the BND (yet again) with its hands in the cookie jar ... [1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/g10_2001/__7a.html http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/g10_2001/__7a.html