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title: New proof for surveillance: CCC extends legal complaints against intelligence services and German government
date: 2014-07-16 00:09:00
updated: 2014-07-16 08:16:54
author: henning
tags: update, pressemitteilung
Investigations 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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The publication of parts of the search pattern code used in the NSA
system XKeyscore \[1\], \[3\] provides proof that data traffic to and
from a CCC-operated server of the Tor network was explicitly collected
and stored. While other documents from the Snowden publications show
that currently even the NSA isn't able to entirely de-anonymize Tor, the
fact of the now-documented surveillance of the CCC server demonstrates
beyond doubt the agressive surveillance with which the NSA targets
German citizens.
The legal complaint \[2\] filed and published in February together with
the International League for Human Rights (ILMR) and Digitalcourage e.
V. was signed by 1.800 people. So far, it has not been used by the
Federal Prosecutor General to initiate prosecution. The authorized
lawyers so far haven't been provided with either information or
justification for the decision to not open the investigations about the
mass surveillance yet.
Why Harald Range is acting on the wiretapping of a single prominent
person but doesn't act on the mass-surveillance of large parts of the
entire population is beyond comprehension. For this reason we're urging
the Federal Prosecutor General to stop blocking investigations and start
doing his job to avoid public ridicule. The irresponsible protraction of
investigations regarding the crimes and offenses as part of the
intelligence scandals enhances suspicion of the Federal Prosecutor
General bowing to German as well as international intelligence services
on judiciary grounds as well.
The current discussion about spies in the German Bundestag and in German
ministries distracts from the real scandal: the mass surveillance of the
population and the criminalization of those users who want to protect
themselves from the spying. The coordinator for US intelligence
activities in Germany, who has been asked by German government to leave
the country, should be first questioned by the Federal Prosecutor
General, and, if appropriate, charged and brought to trial.
**Links**:
- \[0\] Complaint:
<http://ccc.de/system/uploads/153/original/NSA-GBA.pdf> (in German)
- \[1\] Proof for NSA espionage in Germany (in German):
<http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2014/Quellcode-entschluesselt-Beweis-fuer-NSA-Spionage-in-Deutschland,nsa224.html>
- \[2\] Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the
German Government: <http://ccc.de/en/updates/2014/complaint>
- \[3\] <http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt>
**Contact**:
H.-Eberhard Schultz and Claus Förster, solicitors\
Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Greifswalder Str. 4, 10405
Berlin\
Telefon: 030 43725026, Fax: 030 43725027, cf(at)cfoerster.de
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