Anti-privacy legislation German Minister of Interior Alexander Dobrindt of the Christian conservative CSU party proposed a sweeping intelligence reform that would allow agencies to hack systems, use and buy AI including foreign solutions from Peter Thiel's Palantir, and analyze feeds from public and private cameras in real-time with AI face and biometric recognition. The bill, which also mandates the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) to disclose zero-day vulnerabilities to intelligence agencies, has sparked protest from the German automotive lobby over real-time access to car telemetry data. Critics note the bill abolishes the post-WW2 division between intelligence gathering and action, and Dobrindt has a record of deliberately introducing unconstitutional laws, as revealed by internal documents obtained under the freedom of information law (IFG), which his government also seeks to abolish. German intelligence reform: Add protest by automotive lobby against use of car telemetry data by intelligence, add background on the same minister deliberatly introducing an unconstitutional law in order to enact it until overturned by a court | ← Older revision | Revision as of 09:32, 15 August 2026 | || | Line 612: | Line 612: | || |Significantly expands the powers of German intelligence agencies. | |Significantly expands the powers of German intelligence agencies. | || Suggested by Minister of Interior Alexander Dobrindt of Christian conservative party CSU. | Suggested by Minister of Interior Alexander Dobrindt of Christian conservative party CSU. | || The proposed changes includes the permission to hack systems, to use, train and buy AI, including foreign solutions like those from Peter Thiel's Palantir . Public and private cameras presumably including cars, vacuum robots, laptop, TV, phone cameras and more may be hacked and their feeds analyzed in real-time, including AI face and biometric recognition. It also allows for large-scale internet surveillance and reduces transparency and control. | The proposed changes includes the permission to hack systems, to use, train and buy AI, including foreign solutions like those from Peter Thiel's Palantir . Public and private cameras presumably including cars, vacuum robots, laptop, TV, phone cameras and more may be hacked and their feeds analyzed in real-time, including AI face and biometric recognition. It also allows for large-scale internet surveillance and reduces transparency and control. | || Moreover, the Federal Office for Information Security BSI would have to disclose zero-day vulnerabilites to intelligence agencies. | Moreover, the Federal Office for Information Security BSI would have to disclose zero-day vulnerabilites to intelligence agencies. | || The division of intelligence gathering and the power of taking action, which the bill seeks to abolish, was introduced in Germany after the end of WW2 based on the bad experiences with secret state police Gestapo under the Nazi regime. | ||| The extent to which this law would grant real-time access to car telemetry data has sparked protest from the German car lobby.