German police raid cyber-privacy tech groups
A suite of internet privacy-enabling tools is at the center of a storm brewing in Germany over a controversial law enforcement investigation that’s already netted police mountains of personal and financial information on several different anti-censorship groups. These pro-online anonymity, non-profit organizations are now criticizing German police who, for their part, have mostly stayed mostly silent on the operations. On June 20, German police raided homes and offices for the group Zwiebelfreunde (translated as Onion Friends), an organization affiliated with the Torservers.net group which runs servers for the Tor anonymity network, German media reported. The raid came after the blog Krawalltouristen (translated as Riot Tourists) called for protests against right-wing German politicians. Police have been looking for the authors of this specific blog because they reportedly feared the protests could turn violent. A trove of electronics and documents were seized by police. But members of Zwiebelfreunde say they have no […]
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