https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany’s biggest communications company, Deutsche Telekom, has put forward plans for the country to use German only connections in a bid to combat the threat of foreign spy agencies and hackers. https://www.thelocal.de/20131014/52385 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:52:00 +0200 52385 Employees must get a break from work-related emails over the holidays, a small business group demanded on Thursday, calling for clear guidelines on when Germans can switch off their phones for a silent night at Christmas. https://www.thelocal.de/20121129/46469 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:56:00 +0100 46469 It was supposed to be simple email: But after a German parliament staffer's missive accidentally was sent to thousands of her colleagues, their responses overloaded Bundestag computers on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120126/40351 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:43:00 +0100 40351 Major German email providers are readying themselves for the new De-Mail system that will let users send letters and documents over the web that are just as legally binding as printed material delivered by post. https://www.thelocal.de/20100713/28469 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:50:00 +0200 28469 Germany was aflutter on Friday after an embarrassing blunder by a news reader for public broadcaster ZDF, who confused “phishing” with the sexual term “fisting” while referring to recent online attacks on email accounts worldwide. https://www.thelocal.de/20091009/22455 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:22:00 +0200 22455 A Munich court has ruled that sending so-called spam emails is illegal without the prior approval of the recipient. https://www.thelocal.de/20090922/22071 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:18:00 +0200 22071