The sparse response by the British government, seen by the German Press Agency DPA, advised Germany to address its concerns directly to the intelligence services.
Germany has demanded answers from Britain over its Tempora electronic surveillance programme, warning that measures “shrouded in secrecy” harmed democracy, and urging that the controversy be dealt with at EU level.
Germany is especially sensitive over privacy and data protection, given its dark history of state surveillance and secret police abuses under the Nazis and the communist East German regime.
The minister last weekend said the Tempora accusations would be a “catastrophe” if true and added: “The allegations against Great Britain sound like a nightmare out of Hollywood … European institutions should shed light on this immediately.”
In her letters to the British government, she again stressed that “these measures must be raised in an EU context” at ministerial level and as part of ongoing discussions on the EU Data Protection Regulation.

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