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@Ponderable saidAhhh, my mistake, thanks for pointing it out.
Actually it gave Hitler control of the Reichstag... the institutions youementioned are post ww2
It was my understanding that Reichstag just meant the building.
Like our Capitol is where our Congress meets.
Now I know. 🙂
This, from Wikipedia:
"The Reichstag (German: [ˈʁaɪ̯çstaːk], "Diet of the Realm" ), officially the Greater German Reichstag (German: Großdeutscher Reichstag) after 1938, was the national parliament of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Following the Nazi seizure of power and the enactment of the Enabling Act of 1933, it functioned purely as a rubber stamp for the actions of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship – always by unanimous consent – and as a forum to listen to Hitler's speeches. In this purely ceremonial role, the Reichstag convened only 20 times, the last on 26 April 1942. The President of the Reichstag (Reichstagspräsident) throughout this period was Hermann Göring.
"During this period, the Reichstag was sometimes derisively referred to by the German public as the "teuerste Gesangsverein Deutschlands" (the most expensive singing club in Germany) due to frequent singing of the national anthem during sessions. To avoid holding scheduled elections during World War II, in 1943 Hitler extended the term of office of the current Reichstag (elected in late 1938 to serve in 1939–1943) to serve a special eight-year term to end on 30 January 1947."
Elsewhere in Wikipedia, they refer to the Nazi Reichstag as a "pseudo-parliament".
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@wildgrass saidI imagine just ignored.
Again, confusing in these times as it wasn't long ago I was taught about the dangers of government surveillance using my library card as an example. How quaint in these present times to think the government was recently not allowed to know what books I was reading.
Were those laws against excessive government surveillance overturned, rewritten or just ignored?
But most government employees don't give a flying fig what you had for breakfast, etc.
@moonbus saidSimilarly, right after 9/11, there was concern over widespread monitoring of phones by computers looking for specific words. Like 'bomb', 'explosions' or 'hijacking'.
@wildgrass
George W. Bush overturned a lot of those laws in the wake of the attacks on 9/11, with the so-called Patriot Act. Librarians became obligated to report suspicious activities, such as checking out books about how to make improvised explosive devices, without, however, informing the person who checked out the books or even asked about them.
People also started wondering if this new thing called 'the internet' was really just a tool to watch us.
@Suzianne said'most government employees don't care' is the point. Your librarian is a government employee who should not care.
I imagine just ignored.
But most government employees don't give a flying fig what you had for breakfast, etc.
But the data should be stored separately by design. Once you aggregate it to a single database and compile it in a way that law enforcement can build profiles it only takes one bad egg to ruin breakfast for everyone.