The Nachrichtendienstliches Informationssystem (NADIS) (''Intelligence agency information system'') is a searchable database operated by the German domestic security agency
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (german: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV, often ''Bundesverfassungsschutz'') is Germany's federal domestic intelligence agency. Together with the Landesämter für Verfassungss ...
(BfV). Data stored in the system is readily assessible by the BfV, the foreign intelligence agency
Bundesnachrichtendienst
The Federal Intelligence Service (German: ; , BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence head ...
(BND), and the military intelligence agency
Militärischer Abschirmdienst
The Military Counterintelligence Service (german: Militärischer Abschirmdienst; MAD) is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany, and is responsible for military counterintelligence. The other two are the ''Bundesnachrichtendiens ...
(MAD).
As of 2008, it contains over a million
data set A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data. In the case of tabular data, a data set corresponds to one or more database tables, where every column of a table represents a particular variable, and each row corresponds to a given record of the ...
s of personal information.
NADIS WN
On 24 June 2012, the database was upgraded and renamed "NADIS WN".
International data exchange
United States
In 2012, the BND received information from the
United States intelligence community
United may refer to:
Places
* United, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* United, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Arts and entertainment Films
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on 1,830 occasions. The information was handed over to the BfV and stored in the NADIS system
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, accessdate=20 December 2013
See also
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List of government surveillance projects
This is a list of government surveillance projects and related databases throughout the world.
International
* ECHELON: A signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the ...
*
Project 6 Project 6, or simply P6, is a global surveillance project jointly operated by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in close cooperation with the German intelligence agencies Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV ...
References
Government databases