A familiar name…
The German minister in question is Thomas de Maizière, the same idiot who pronounced last year …
…that he wanted to install lots of facial recognition systems and store everybody's face -- presumably to catch (likely in retrospect) the odd Very Naughty Person. Or, to mangle a Spockism, "The naughtiness of the few outweigh the rights of the many."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
