{"id":67425,"date":"2014-02-03T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=67425"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:58:04","slug":"hackers-sue-german-government-over-nsa-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=67425","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Sue German Government Over NSA Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Angela-Merkel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51703\" alt=\"\u0561\u0576\u0563\u0565\u056c\u0561 \u0574\u0565\u0580\u056f\u0565\u056c\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Angela-Merkel.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Angela-Merkel.jpg 620w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Angela-Merkel-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Angela-Merkel-479x300.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>A group of computer hackers and human rights campaigners in Germany announced Monday that they are suing their government for allegedly breaking the law by aiding foreign spies.<\/p>\n<p>The Chaos Computer Club and the International League for Human Rights submitted a criminal complaint to federal prosecutors claiming that Chancellor Angela Merkel, her government and security officials tolerated and even helped members of the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain&#8217;s GCHQ to spy on German citizens.<\/p>\n<p>While the German government has expressed misgivings about some of the reported allegations and is seeking to negotiate a &#8216;no-spy&#8217; agreement with the United States, opposition lawmakers have accused Merkel&#8217;s administration of failing to put sufficient pressure on Washington for fear of jeopardizing diplomatic relations and intelligence cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of computer hackers and human rights campaigners in Germany announced Monday that they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}