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Deutsche Telekom hopes to hide German internet traffic from spies Oct 12th 2013, 15:24 Tweet Share this Email Print Reprints The logo of Deutsche Telekom is seen at a store in Bonn, April 3, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay FRANKFURT | Sat Oct 12, 2013 11:24am EDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's biggest telecoms operator is pushing to shield local internet traffic from foreign spies by routing it only through domestic connections, Deutsche Telekom said on Saturday. Public outrage followed revelations that U.S. spy programs had accessed the private messages of German citizens. Deutsche Telekom had already said it would only channel local email traffic through servers within Germany. The company aims to agree with other internet providers that any data being transmitted domestically would not leave German borders, a Deutsche Telekom spokesman said. "In a next step, this initiative could be expanded to the Schengen area," the spokesman said, referring to the group of 26 European countries - excluding Britain - that have abandoned immigration controls. Revelations of snooping by the secret services of the United States and Britain were based on documents leaked by fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. News magazine Der Spiegel reported in June that the United States taps half a billion phone calls, emails and text messages in Germany in a typical month. Government snooping is a sensitive subject in Germany due to the heavy surveillance of citizens in the former communist East and under Hitler's Nazis. One of Deutsche Telekom's competitors, internet service provider QSC, had questioned the feasibility of its plan to shield internet traffic, saying it was not possible to determine clearly whether data was being routed nationally or internationally, WirtschaftsWoche magazine reported. Other providers, including Vodafone and Telefonica, are currently considering whether they want to join Deutsche Telekom's initiative, it reported. Vodafone, Telefonica's German unit and QSC were not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Peter Dinkloh and Harro Ten Wolde; Editing by Matthew Tostevin) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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