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1title: New proof for surveillance: CCC extends legal complaints against intelligence services and German government
2date: 2014-07-16 00:09:00
3updated: 2014-07-16 07:58:15
4author: henning
5tags: update, pressemitteilung
6
7Investigations by Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range are becoming more urgent after new publications expose data collection explicitly targeting at least one of the Tor servers operated by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Germany, feeding the data of the users directly into the surveillance systems of the NSA. The CCC is extending the existing legal complaint against those responsible at the intelligence services and the German government with the new facts and requests to prosecute the illegal intelligence activity against the CCC and all affected users of the anonymization network Tor.
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11The publication of parts of the search pattern code used in the NSA
12system XKeyscore \[1\], \[3\] provides proof that data traffic to and
13from a CCC-operated server of the Tor network was explicitly collected
14and stored. While other documents from the Snowden publications show
15that currently even the NSA isn't able to entirely de-anonymize Tor, the
16fact of the now-documented surveillance of the CCC server demonstrates
17beyond doubt the agressive surveillance with which the NSA targets
18German citizens.
19
20The legal complaint \[2\] filed and published in February together with
21the International League for Human Rights (ILMR) and Digitalcourage e.
22V. was signed by 1.800 people. So far, it has not been used by the
23Federal Prosecutor General to initiate prosecution. The authorized
24lawyers so far haven't been provided with either information or
25justification for the decision to not open the investigations about the
26mass surveillance yet.
27
28Why Harald Range is acting on the wiretapping of a single prominent
29person but doesn't act on the mass-surveillance of large parts of the
30entire population is beyond comprehension. For this reason we're urging
31the Federal Prosecutor General to stop blocking investigations and start
32doing his job to avoid public ridicule. The irresponsible protraction of
33investigations regarding the crimes and offenses as part of the
34intelligence scandals enhances suspicion of the Federal Prosecutor
35General bowing to German as well as international intelligence services
36on judiciary grounds as well.
37
38The current discussion about spies in the German Bundestag and in German
39ministries distracts from the real scandal: the mass surveillance of the
40population and the criminalization of those users who want to protect
41themselves from the spying. The coordinator for US intelligence
42activities in Germany, who has been asked by German government to leave
43the country, should be first questioned by the Federal Prosecutor
44General, and, if appropriate, charged and brought to trial.
45
46 
47
48**Links**:
49
50- \[0\] Complaint:
51 <http://ccc.de/system/uploads/153/original/NSA-GBA.pdf> (in German)
52- \[1\] Proof for NSA espionage in Germany (in German):
53 <http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2014/Quellcode-entschluesselt-Beweis-fuer-NSA-Spionage-in-Deutschland,nsa224.html>
54- \[2\] Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the
55 German Government: <http://ccc.de/de/updates/2014/complaint>
56- \[3\] <http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt>
57
58 
59
60**Contact**:
61
62H.-Eberhard Schultz and Claus Förster, solicitors\
63Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Greifswalder Str. 4, 10405
64Berlin\
65Telefon: 030 43725026, Fax: 030 43725027, cf(at)cfoerster.de
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