Secret report reveals: German BND also uses XKEYSCORE for data collection

(Updated: September 23, 2016) Over the past few years we learned a lot about Germany's foreign intelligence service BND , although not f...

Gathering evidence in patent proceedings? EPLAW's Europe/Japan mock trials may be what you need

Somewhat, but not completely revealing, Merpel impersonates  a defendant's  voluntary  infringement evidence.... September seems to be t...

Federal Court of Justice greenlights colour mark red

Red . In the ongoing dispute between the Sparkassen Group and Banco Santander, which led to the CJEU's decision in cases C‑217/13 and C‑...

German journalists about working with the Snowden documents

Last Monday, the website The Intercept started publishing larger batches of documents from the Snowden trove, so they can now also be exami...

Something about the use of selectors: correlations and equations

(Updated: August 24, 2016) The Snowden revelations made people familiar with what NSA calls "selectors": phone numbers, e-mail add...

Unnoticed leak answers and raises questions about operation Eikonal

(Last edited: November 23, 2015) Almost unnoticed, the Austrian member of parliament Peter Pilz recently disclosed new information about op...