In August 2015, the German weekly Die Zeit disclosed reported that BND completed a deal with the NSA to get access to the surveillance platform XKeyscore. Internal documents show that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), received the software program XKeyscore from the NSA in return of data from Germany.
59% Yes |
41% No |
35% Yes |
40% No |
14% Yes, but only by court order |
1% No, and enact legislation preventing government surveillance of citizen communications |
7% Yes, but only for those with criminal backgrounds |
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3% Yes, this is necessary to combat terrorism |
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Unique answers from Germany users whose views extended beyond the provided choices.
@85KTNJB11mos11MO
Yes, but it must be completely illegal to for any information gathered by the monitoring of phone calls and emails to be divulged to the public, except for information which was also discovered by other legal means
@9BTT5CZ12mos12MO
The monitoring of a phone call or an email should be with an option to whether the person wants to allow the government to do so or no. If said person has done multiple crimes then their emails and phone calls should be monitored all the time.
@9BFWTV71yr1Y
Yes, also the government already does this and if you are a good citizen then you have nothing to fear in the first place
@9B7WCQ71yr1Y
Yes, but only by court order except for terrorism suspects who do not need court authorization
@99MMLBS1yr1Y
Only for those suspected of criminal activities.
@99CBV5B1yr1Y
Yes, but only when there is evidence of a crime planning
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