Over twenty thousand people today marched through the German capital of Berlin protesting against the rise of surveillance legislation in their country and the European Union in recent years. Under the motto “freedom not fear,” 167 organisations, including major trade unions, associations of lawyers, judges, journalists, doctors and civil rights activists, called on the German public to raise their voices against communication data retention legislation, biometric passports, video surveillance and the new German system for internet content filtering based on domain-name system re-direction.
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