On June 17, the Federal Data Protection Commissioner issued the 25th Activities Report (source document in German) for 2013–14. A key theme in the report is controlling intelligence service activities. The structure of the report changed from previous releases, as individual reports are no longer allocated to the relevant topic but to the competent committee of the Parliament.

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