Upgrading the secret services: Interior Ministry leaves data purchases in the gray area

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt apparently does not want to control data purchases by secret services more strictly. – All rights reserved: IMAGO / dts news agency The federal government does not reveal whether German secret services buy data from the advertising industry from data brokers. There is a lot to be said for this, but the new secret service reform is not intended to create a clear legal basis. Critics such as the Federal Data Protection Commissioner have constitutional concerns.