A two-year legal battle of German intelligence agency metadata collections has ended. And the German Federal Intelligence (BND) agency has lost. BND collects over 11 billion records every year. And it shares this haul with the NSA and GCHQ. This was revealed via documents leaked to German news agency Die Zeit. The BND was grabbing metadata at a rate of 220 million records per day. The Reuters report says the BND will no longer be able to “store” metadata records for intelligence analysis.
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