Germany Plans Secret Home Raids and Teenage Informants – Allah's Willing Executioners

Medforth AI Germany’s domestic intelligence agency could soon be authorised to secretly alter digital data, hack into private computers and mobile phones, enter homes without occupants’ knowledge, recruit 16- and 17-year-olds as informants, and never inform citizens that they had been subjected to surveillance. The draft law, prepared by Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, would dramatically expand the powers of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. The plans have already triggered fierce criticism from opposition politicians and commentators, who warn they would hand Germany’s domestic intelligence agency unprecedented powers. Under the proposals, the domestic intelligence agency would no longer be limited to collecting information, but could actively intervene in communications and IT systems, including interrupting, redirecting, or altering data transmissions. Stored digital information …