According to a German court, the BND must not store the metadata of international phone calls for the purpose of intelligence analysis. Germany had reacted with outrage when Edward Snowden leaked documents that demonstrate the surveillance activity, in response, the Chancellor Merkel proposed the establishment of an external watchdog panel of jurists in order to evaluate the activities of the intelligence agency. Reporters Without Borders filed a lawsuit against BND accusing it to have breached the organizations secrecy and harmed the partners and reporters it worked with.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/66772/digital-id/german-court-rules-bnd.html