Summer Fairy Tale Turns into a Nightmare

Just in time for the summer break and a possible summer fairy tale, the Security Package 2.0 is coming our way. In addition to police laws in various federal states, this package also aims to “clear the table” at the federal level of any reservations regarding privacy, anonymity, and fundamental rights. We covered the police laws at

• Baden-Württemberg: The Greens Join in on Total Surveillance
• Saxony: Surveillance Goes Total—New Police Law for Saxony

We have listed what will be included in the new Security Package 2.0 on the occasion of the demonstration last weekend “Against Digital Armament! Security Is Possible Without Surveillance.”

In doing so, we referred to the Federal Constitutional Court’s (BVerfG) "overall assessment of surveillance", which the court always consults whenever new or expanded powers are transferred to state authorities. This is precisely what expert Constanze Kurz warned against in the linked article nearly half a year ago. How predictable far-right politicians have become...

In particular, she criticizes:

• the renewed expansion of intelligence surveillance
• mass interception of communications
• active hacking and sabotage by the BND
• Breaking into homes to install the government Trojan
• Real-time dragnet surveillance directly on the fiber-optic cables of Internet nodes

Appeals to the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) are once again unavoidable ...

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Read more https://netzpolitik.org/2026/massenueberwachung-und-hacking-der-bnd-soll-neue-maechtige-instrumente-bekommen/

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