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News magazine „Der Spiegel" reported in October 2013 that the German Foreign Intelligence Agency Bundesnachrichtendienst is allowed to wiretap 25 Internet Service Providers at DE-CIX, including five German BND held a first „planning meeting" with DE-CIX in their offices on August 14, 2008 where they discussed the wire-tapping operation to follow.

DE-CIX legal opinion was, that the BND should only be allowed to intercept 20% of the actual occurring traffic per line, but the BND wanted everything.

The DE-CIX IXP in New York is operated by DE-CIX North America Inc., a subsidiary of the German company DE-CIX which is subject to US law.

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