[pavlov]

Germany has a history of its government using data collected about citizens against them.

Much legislation was created after WWII to try to prevent that from happening again.

[rvnx]

It hasn't stopped the German Interior Ministry from campaigning for EU-wide chat control and pushing to reinstate mass data retention

[izacus]

That's because this campaign is about changing that very law. Saying that "this is blatantly illegal" misses the basic point of this proposal being a CHANGE of the law that makes that illegal.

[tremon]

No, it's even worse. This is an attempt to bypass those laws by bringing in a new one at European level, and having that supersede the obnoxious protections in member states' Constitutions (Germany is hardly the only one with such protections).

[izacus]

If this passes, Germany would have to approve of it, which makes your diction a bit wierd.

A country approving a law at a higher instance that changes their existing law is not bypassing anything.