Berlin - Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) plans
to spend 100 million euros expanding its monitoring of the Internet, the weekly
Der Spiegel reported on Sunday, saying the money would go on staff and
technology.
The report came two days before U.S. President Barack Obama
was due to visit Berlin, where he was likely to face tough questions about U.S.
spying methods.
Many Germans from the former communist east still recall the
blanket surveillance carried out by the Stasi secret police, and when news of
Washington’s covert electronic spying program PRISM broke last week, it caused
outrage.
The BND was unavailable for comment.
Some German politicians criticized the plan, with Justice
Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger saying the answer to citizens’
concerns about U.S. spying could not be “Let the Germans do it instead”.
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