There is not much left to be said on the spying scandal at Deutsche Bahn, the case is clear. Thousands of Germany's railway enterprise have been spyed in sort of a dragnet, where masses of personal data have been transferred to a detective agency that has already been involved in a similar action at German Telekom. Not only was the Bahn's data protection officer left unaware of this initiative, the works council was not involved as well. Of course, representatives of Deutsche Bahn told to the public that everything was legally correct.

Legally correct - so they obviously think - is trying to intimidate the German blogger who wants to shed light on this outrageous scandal: after publishing an internal Bahn memo on the spy action, the maintainer of netzpolitik.org was receiving a letter of demand to remove the memo and any excerpts. That's the data policy of a self-proclaimed global player!

That memo is indeed dynamite - you may find it at WikiLeaks in the meantime, and even a German politician is hosting it on his web site. Let's see if Bahn lawyers try to admonish him too. (Source)