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East Germanys Spy Files Competing

Juan Cole 09/28/2002

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EAST GERMANY’S SPY FILES: COMPETING ISSUES OF PRIVACY AND OPENNESS

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“Neighbours spied on the people living next door and there were instances of one spouse spying on the other, Dr Alexander Dix, Brandenburg’s Commissioner for Data Protection and the first in Germany with responsibility for access to information, told the International Symposium on Freedom of Information and Privacy held recently in Auckland.”

Click here for more on the techniques of surveillance, monitoring and intimidation of the East German secret police, which are now being promoted by the so-called Middle East Forum and by implication the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which has the MEF director as a research associate:

http://www.privacy.org.nz/privword/44stasi.html

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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