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Verfassungsschutz
“Constitution Protection.” The name for a federal German police agency that has state branches. I don’t know much about it. The name might be intended to convey the idea that federal police are needed...
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Vorratsdatenspeicherung
“Reservoir data storage,” “advance data saving.” When a government collects and saves people’s personal communication data in advance, without cause, before needing the data. Germany is in trouble with...
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Rechtsextremismus-Datei
The federal government of Germany has created a central file to collect data on right-wing extremists who are willing to use violence. The file is not intended to collect data on nonviolent people with...
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Regulierte Selbstregulierung
The German Interior Ministry, headed by Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU), has called for the EU to take a “regulated self-regulation” policy with regard to data privacy. (RAY goo leer teh ZELBST ray goo...
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Anti-Terror-Datei
Central federal file of police and intelligence services’ information about potential and actual terrisss but also possibly about innocent burghers. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has said this...
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Zentrales Waffenregister
Central weapons register. Gun owners in Germany currently have to register their guns at several hundred (~550) small separate offices that don’t coordinate with one another. Interior Minister...
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2649 Belege
“2,649 pieces of evidence” which have been collected in a report that will be used in preliminary discussions of another runup to an attempt at banning the far-right German political party NDP...
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Null-Nummer
“A nada number,” zilch, zip, zero. Opposition politicians criticized the 24-hour visit of Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (C.S.U.) to the U.S.A. on July 12 to discuss N.S.A. spying with the...
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L.K.W.-Maut
Truck toll. Germany has a relatively new national toll on trucks. On 06 Nov 2013 it became known that interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (C.S.U.) had wanted to use data collected during the...
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