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Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thats-not-very-good dept.

Matt writes "Google is threatening to shut down the German version of its Gmail service if the German Bundestag passes it's new Internet surveillance law. Peter Fleischer, Google's German privacy representative says the new law would be a severe blow against privacy and would go against Google's practice of also offering anonymous e-mail accounts. If the law is passed then starting 2008, any connection data concerning the internet, phone calls (With position data when cell phones are used), SMS etc. of any German citizen will be saved for 6 months, anonymizing services like Tor will be made illegal."

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  1. Re:Phew! by moronoxyd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Outlawing Tor is very much specific to Germany.

    Tor will not be outlawed, but anybody who runs a Tor server from within Germany has to log the connection data, which pretty much goes against the idea of Tor.
    But running or using Tor in general will not be illegal (from what I unterstand).