Surveillance Network or Answer to Hybrid Warfare? Total Intelligence Reform Is Coming

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From “researchers at a think tank” to James Bond agents. Germany’s controversial intelligence service is now to be given sweeping new powers. “It’s a new era,” says Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.

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A comprehensive reform of the intelligence law, which is based on an 80-year-old legal framework, has been approved in Germany, which also affects the operation of foreign intelligence services. The 700-page draft provides agents with modern powers to combat hybrid warfare attacks. In the future, secret reporting obligations will be imposed on car manufacturers, service stations, freight and passenger transport companies, postal services, and ho…