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>From TheIndependent
> GERMAN PHONE TAPS ARE ROUTINE
>
>
> GERMANY'S SECRET services can routinely listen to anyone's
> international telephone calls, as long as they do not pass their
> findings to the local police, the country's highest court ruled
> yesterday.
>
> The judgment of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe settles a
> legal battle waged for the last five years by the Tageszeitung
> newspaper and a law professor, who argued that state
> eavesdropping was endangering civil liberties.
>
> Their target was a law passed in 1994 which for the first time
> authorised a wide-spread surveillance of German citizens. The
> Federal Intelligence Service will not say how many calls, fax and
> data transmissions it intercepts every day, but estimates run
> into thousands.
>
> About 1,400 of its operatives, roughly a quarter of the total,
> are tapping into satellite traffic. Germany is believed to have
> the fourth most extensive eavesdropping operation in the Western
> world, after the US, Britain and Israel.
>
> At the service's headquarters in the Munich suburb of Pullach,
> and at 10 other listening stations, a formidable array of
> electronic equipment filters calls for their content, looking for
> key words. Mention "cocaine", "weapons", "revolution" or their
> various euphemisms, and the call will trigger alarms. The
> conversation can then be recorded and - until the latest ruling -
> the police informed of its contents, without the caller ever
> finding out.
>
> But the police must now be kept out, and it will no longer be
> within the service's remit to trawl the ether for forgers of
> foreign banknotes. But, to the disappointment of civil rights
> activists, its other current practices will continue.
>
> Its only limitation is computer and telephone technology. No one
> has yet produced reliable speech-recognition software for the
> organisation's powerful computers, and the system can easily be
> overloaded by pranksters.
<<They fought the GDR & Stasi over this same sort of issue,
no?>>
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