Urgent application rejected: Chancellery does not have to secure Merkel’s SMS

Does government member SMS need to be secured as much as other content? Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel could already have eagerly deleted.

For the time being, the Federal Chancellery does not have to back up the SMS messages from former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) before deleting them. This was decided by the Berlin Administrative Court and rejected an urgent application from the Ask the State initiative. According to the court (PDF), the initiative could not sufficiently justify that there are still SMS on Merkel’s cell phone that were …

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