The German government stated this week that people should avoid using Wi-Fi whenever possible due to possible health risks... or maybe they didn't...

"The German government's ruling - which contrasts sharply with the unquestioning promotion of the technology by British officials - was made in response to a series of questions by Green members of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament," writes The Independent's Geoffrey Lean. "The Environment Ministry recommended that people should keep their exposure to radiation from Wi-Fi 'as low as possible' by choosing 'conventional wired connections.'"

Still, this may all be simply the result of a lack of German language speakers at The Independent: The Register's Lucy Sherriff points to the actual statement in German (PDF file) as well as a post by The Yorkshire Ranter contending that "rather than advising the citizenry to avoid WLANs, the Federal Government said that their experiments showed that radiation exposure from them was between one and two orders of magnitude below the regulatory limit, that even when the device was in contact with the skin, a breach of this was very unlikely, that public hotspots made up only a minimal exposure to the public, that there were no specific precautions recommended by the government, but in general it might be better to use a wired solution where possible..."

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