Hamburg lawyers protest over German surveillance plans

Lawyers from across Germany gathered in Berlin to campaign against plans to reintroduce a bill allowing for mass storage of data.

Lawyers have protested over surveillance outside German Chancellor Angela Merkel's residence 360b

German Lawyers held an anti-surveillance demonstration outside Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Berlin on Saturday in protest over plans to reintroduce a bill allowing for the mass storage of data. The rally, organised by Hamburg based 'Lawyers Against Total Surveillance', was organised to mark the second anniversary of whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations about the US National Security Agency's activites as well as protesting against Germany's intelligence agency collecting data for the US. 

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