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The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne
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Aviation companies, telecommunications providers and financial service providers must continue to provide information to the secret services when it comes to warding off a terrorist threat.
In order to combat international terrorism, the Bundestag has made a number of regulations from 2002 permanent and permanent.
The "practical need for these regulations and their appropriate use" has been confirmed in repeated evaluations, it was said to justify.
Specifically, it is primarily a matter of information obligations to the constitution protection, the Federal Intelligence Service and the military counterintelligence.
This involves, for example, passing on cell phone numbers.
The regulations had initially been introduced for a limited period under the impression of the 9/11 attacks.
They were then continuously extended.
BKA: Indispensable when there is a current terrorist threat
At a hearing in the Home Affairs Committee, some experts raised constitutional concerns.
However, the Federal Criminal Police Office supported the federal government's draft law.
The BKA argued that in view of the current terrorist threat, the intelligence services' findings are also indispensable for police investigations and prosecution.
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