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Expenditure Report Reveals Germany Monitors Skype, Google Mail, Facebook Chat

Posted by Unknown on from the blame-the-accountants dept.

hypnosec writes "The German Government has gone a bit too far trying to be transparent, inadvertently revealing that German police monitor Skype, Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and Facebook chat when necessary. The revelations, spotted by the annalist blog, come from a report of expenses incurred by the Federal Ministry of the Interior following a parliamentary inquiry. The report contains lots of tables and as many would find those boring, some highlights: On page 34 and page 37 of the report line item 486 and 265 respectively, represent decoding software for Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail for prevention and investigation."

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  1. Good job Germany... by Valor958 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Way to set back your government back a generation.
    I'm sure references are bound to be made towards Facsism, etc etc... but frankly... it just reinforces a bad stigma against Germany after all the bad thoughts already in place over the past 100 years.
    Really though, I'm sure the US does this, but just isn't quite 'that' transparent yet.