German spy agency ‘illegally restricted’ supervision of its abuses – data safety commissioner

‘The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been trying to hamper its own oversight, the country’s data protection commissioner said in a leaked report, which also unveiled excessive and systematic violations of citizens’ rights by the spy agency.
The paper examined how the BND data collection center in the southeastern city of Bad Aibling monitored the telecommunications data of German citizens. The 60-page report was initially obtained by NDR and WDR media outlets and was also posted online by the netzpolitik.org website.
In the leaked document, dating back to March 2016, Federal Data Protection Commissioner Andrea Vosshoff claimed the BND clearly hampered her attempts to investigate the agency’s work.’
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