Jennifer Baker reports:
Germany’s domestic secret service is backing a criminal case against government officials who passed documents to the press.
Activists claim the investigation is an effort to clamp down on the freedom of the press, while others see it as a cynical move by interior spooks the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) to cement its newly-acquired powers.
At the centre of the storm are two blog posts published on Netzpolitik.org, a German-language site which bills itself as a “platform for digital freedoms”, in February and April this year.
One examined a €2.75m project for processing massive online datasets. The other revealed plans for a 75-man unit to monitor Twitter and Facebook chats, as well as other communications.
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