The intelligence services want more power, but time and again show they can’t handle it

The oversight body for the intelligence services concludes in its latest report that the services don’t have their data management in order. They’re not complying with the law. That’s highly problematic, because they collect data not only on so-called targets, but also on millions of ordinary citizens like you and me.

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A power struggle rages for your data

Here’s what we think of the new rules on how the secret services should handle bulk data.

Hooray! We freed the data of millions of people from the clutches of the secret services!

Hooray! We freed the data from millions of citizens from the clutches of the secret services!