dumpster diving After unsuccessful legislative reform, German radicals defy the law to dumpster-dive at grocery stores Cory Doctorow

prostitution Drive-in sex booths may be installed at Berlin's former airport David Pescovitz

Rockin'1000 1,000 musicians gather to play Rage Against the Machine hit Rusty Blazenhoff

brutalism Eastern Blocks: photographs of the brutalist towers of the former USSR Cory Doctorow

seize the means of computation Germany's powerful IG Metall trade union is organizing Youtubers to force Google to play fair Cory Doctorow

think of ze children Germany says nein danke to Microsoft Séamus Bellamy

cloud act After Microsoft moves its servers back to the USA, German state's privacy commissioner advises schools not to use Office 365 Cory Doctorow

don't mention the war "It's easy to play the Nazi card" Cory Doctorow

son-of-curface Coffee cups made from coffee grounds Cory Doctorow

cheat devies Dieselgate 2.0: 42,000 Mercedes diesels recalled for "illegal software" Cory Doctorow

my home is not your profit Berlin Senate approves five-year, citywide rent freeze Cory Doctorow

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer After viral Youtube denunciations, Germany's establishment parties falter — so the ruling party's leader faxed her colleagues demanding action Cory Doctorow

Horst Seehofer Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

election meddling Facebook's Dutch Head of Policy lied to the Dutch parliament about election interference Cory Doctorow

halifax Halifax! I'm speaking at Atlseccon on April 24 (then Toronto, Ottawa, Berlin and Houston!) Cory Doctorow

general monitoring As the EU Copyright Directive was approved, Germany admitted it requires copyright filters, putting it on a collision course with the EU-Canada trade deal Cory Doctorow

Gunther Oettinger After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn't require filters, top EU Commissioner says "Article 13 requires filters" Cory Doctorow

eucd German data privacy commissioner says Article 13 inevitably leads to filters, which inevitably lead to internet "oligopoly" Cory Doctorow

filternets German Data Privacy Commissioner warns at new Copyright Directive will increase the tech oligopoly, make EU companies dependent on US filter vendors, and subject Europeans to surveillance by US companies Cory Doctorow

Chemnitz German neofascists used Qanon to expand their reach Cory Doctorow