&gt; In Germany there is no law that could force us to submit to a gag order or to implement a backdoor.<p>Meanwhile, Germany&#x27;s largest ISP (Deutsche Telekom) is handing over all data of its daughter companies in neighboring countries (in many of which Deutsche Telekom is in a monopoly position - handling most of the Internet traffic) to Germany&#x27;s intelligence agencies and has supposedly been doing so for about a decade already.<p>Germany is doing a lot of the things its politicians have criticized the US for.