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The German government is currently mulling legislation aimed at protecting employees from being spied on in the workplace following scandals at rail operator Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Telekom, discount grocery retailer Lidl and other companies where bosses systematically snooped on their workers.
Even Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, not regarded as Germany's greatest right-to-privacy campaigner, is in favor of a new law. However, there's not enough time to draft and pass the bill before the September general election, so it will likely have to wait until after the next government is in place.
