So Vodafone owes the compensation to the people spied on, particular the Europeans where we have the right to privacy and this is illegal. You can't legally be paid to break laws.
They can just pass new laws retroactively making the practice legal in the instances where it involved national security, so the corporations that cooperated will no longer be on the hook. Worked for the USA.
Why would the Germans do this?
every branch of every science was founded by theists.
And all adults were once babies, what is your point?
Eventually it's time to grow up.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin