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Telekom plans ‘German Internet’ against espionage

To protect customers from data monitoring, Telekom wants to e-mails and other information only run on Internet hubs in Germany. Dozens network operators are on board.

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To protect customers from data monitoring will, let the telecom e-mails and other information only run on Internet hubs in Germany. Dozens network operators are on board.

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The German Telekom wants to reduce Internet traffic over the United States and Britain to protect their customers against espionage by the local intelligence services. To this end, the company compatible with all major business partners in this country, that e-mails and other information exchange will be led only through hubs in Germany, said Telecoms Data Protection Officer Thomas Kremer of the “Rheinische Post”.

currently taking such packets even at domestic connections often having to use Internet nodes in the U.S. and the UK. The security of this very foreign transmission paths was discredited by revelations of computer experts Edward Snowden. Snowden had the systematic monitoring of Internet communications and international phone calls by the U.S. NSA and its British counterpart disclosed.

According to information of the “Business Week” asked the telecom therefore on 1 October at a secret meeting at the Federal Ministry of Economics and their technical response to the revelations before.

extension to the Schengen area being considered

“Internet traffic knows no boundaries, data can be routed to the whole world,” Kremer said. “If transmitter and receiver are in Germany but we now want to reach that Internet traffic is also in Germany.”

Such agreements have already been concluded with several dozen network operators. The “German internet” should be as fast as possible include all the Western countries of continental Europe, Kremer said.

“If we in Germany have shown that we can transport German domestic mails and other information purely national, that should be possible for the Schengen countries,” he told the plans with a view to the European area without border controls stationary. This is not the UK

involved.

USA: intelligence agency may collect

In the U.S., the NSA shall continue to collect domestic phone data. This was decided by the NSA to monitor the activities of counter-terrorism and foreign espionage secret competent court.

U.S. Intelligence Director James Clapper made the decision on Friday (local time) in public. Dena Snow revelations showed that the NSA has collected millions of phone data in the United States.

The protocols run on, with whom Americans have when and how long the phone. U.S. privacy advocates want to achieve since a review of the relevant law that allows this data collection.

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