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2024
Financing a Platform for Global Data Trading
At the end of July 2024, it became known that the government was Germany investing in the Datarade platform, which is used to trade personal data of users. Internet The site has been at the center of privacy-related scandals three times in the space of months. More here
The German government sold all its bitcoins for $2.8 billion
In July 2024, the German government sold most of its bitcoin wallet, with only 5,800 BTC left of the original 50,000 BTC. Thus, 88.4% of all bitcoins were sold. Later it was announced that all the remaining bitcoins were sold. Sale of bitcoins brought the German government $2.8 billion
A hole in the Cisco VKS system allowed hackers to get secret data from the German government
In early May 2024, the German edition of Zeit Online published the results of an investigation indicating that hackers had obtained access to records of government meetings Germany and confidential information discussed on them due to system security violations. video conferencings Cisco More. here
2021
Olaf Scholz - New German Chancellor
On December 8, 2021, Olaf Scholz was officially elected the new Chancellor of Germany. In this post, he replaced Angela Merkel, who has been chancellor for the past 16 years. Read more here.
Angela Merkel's government resignation
On October 26, 2021, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany presented Angela Merkel and her ministers with official dismissal letters.
They will temporarily exercise their powers until a new government is formed. Germany