{"id":55413,"date":"2016-08-24T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_germans_reconsider_tough_privacy_laws_after_terrorist_attacks\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:30:10","slug":"wsj_germans_reconsider_tough_privacy_laws_after_terrorist_attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55413","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Germans Reconsider Tough Privacy Laws After Terrorist Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a bomb threat targeted the Thier Galerie shopping mall in Dortmund in July, police rushed to the scene and asked to scour closed-circuit camera recordings.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t much footage to go through. An attempt by the mall operator to ramp up video surveillance last fall had been vetoed by local authorities who feared an assault on patrons\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t just say you want to have more cameras,\u201d\u009d said Heike Marzen, the mall\u2019s manager. \u201cThere are certain laws we have to follow.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Branded by its dictatorial past, when surveillance was both dreaded and commonplace, Germany has some of the world\u2019s toughest privacy laws. But after two attacks claimed by Islamic State and a mass shooting this summer, the government is pushing to recalibrate the balance between security and anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/germans-reconsider-tough-privacy-laws-after-terrorist-attacks-1471628581\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a bomb threat targeted the Thier Galerie shopping mall in Dortmund in July, police rushed to the scene and asked to scour closed-circuit camera recordings. There wasn\u2019t much footage to go through. An attempt by the mall operator to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55413\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,168,200,478,114,151,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-germany","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}