Unlawful official requests for information at mailbox.org
The email service mailbox.org from Berlin, which specializes in data protection and data security, has published its annual transparency report on official requests for information for 2023 and is taking stock. The total number of government information requests to mailbox.org rose sharply last year, to a total of 133 compared to 55 the previous year. And the number of requests rejected by mailbox.org due to illegality also rose sharply, from 14 in 2022 to 45 in 2023. This means that around a third (33,8 percent) of all government requests made to mailbox.org were rejected because they contained errors or…