The Tor project has insisted its privacy-preserving powers remain potent, countering German reports that user anonymity on its network can be and has been compromised by police. A report by German news magazine program Panorama and YouTube investigative journalism channel STRG_F claims that the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Public Prosecutor General’s Office in Frankfurt am Main were able to identify at least one Tor user after carrying out network surveillance.

Source: The Register