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Germany’s Top Court Extends Privacy Rights to Foreigners, Halts Wiretap Programs

10 points by KarlKemp 6y ago

KarlKemp 6y ago
My partner works at the NGO and was part of the team that brought, fraught, and won this case (https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/ https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/). Happy o (try to) answer any questions.
- s9w 6y ago
  Financed by none other than the Open Society Foundations (aka George Soros).
  - KarlKemp 6y ago
    Yes–among many other great people. The list of cases is quite public, so it shouldn't be a problem to decide your opinion of the foundation on the merits. And if you happen to agree with most/all of them (as most people on HN would), you might rethink your frankly anti-semitic and anti-reality prejudices regarding Soros. The cases are listed at https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/#cases https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/#cases. Among them: - Against domestic phone and internet surveillance - Strengthening whistleblower protections - Supporting FOIA-style transparency law - A case of a female journalist demanding to be paid the same as her male colleagues - Against spyware use by police - supporting the free speech of a politically radical publishing project (indymedia) - against biometric passwords ...and so on.
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    - s9w 6y ago
      I forgot: no one is allowed to criticize Jewish people. That's automatically antisemitism and Nazi. I know that game, that doesn't faze me. You have no power here. Edit: this was immediately flagged and downvoted. Immediately. How is that even possible. This is an old and inactive thread.
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mytailorisrich 6y ago
> Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that monitoring the internet traffic of foreign nationals abroad by the BND intelligence agency partly breaches the constitution. Does that mean that the German intelligence agencies have just effectively been banned from spying? Considering the importance of online communications this would sound like a very bad outcome.
- detaro 6y ago
  Not fundamentally, but the law authorizing them to do it will need a proper rework and introduce restrictions and oversight that are currently missing.

10 points by KarlKemp 6y ago

My partner works at the NGO and was part of the team that brought, fraught, and won this case (https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/ https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/). Happy o (try to) answer any questions.

s9w 6y ago
Financed by none other than the Open Society Foundations (aka George Soros).
- KarlKemp 6y ago
  Yes–among many other great people. The list of cases is quite public, so it shouldn't be a problem to decide your opinion of the foundation on the merits. And if you happen to agree with most/all of them (as most people on HN would), you might rethink your frankly anti-semitic and anti-reality prejudices regarding Soros. The cases are listed at https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/#cases https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/#cases. Among them: - Against domestic phone and internet surveillance - Strengthening whistleblower protections - Supporting FOIA-style transparency law - A case of a female journalist demanding to be paid the same as her male colleagues - Against spyware use by police - supporting the free speech of a politically radical publishing project (indymedia) - against biometric passwords ...and so on.
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  - s9w 6y ago
    I forgot: no one is allowed to criticize Jewish people. That's automatically antisemitism and Nazi. I know that game, that doesn't faze me. You have no power here. Edit: this was immediately flagged and downvoted. Immediately. How is that even possible. This is an old and inactive thread.
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mytailorisrich 6y ago

> Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that monitoring the internet traffic of foreign nationals abroad by the BND intelligence agency partly breaches the constitution. Does that mean that the German intelligence agencies have just effectively been banned from spying? Considering the importance of online communications this would sound like a very bad outcome.

detaro 6y ago
Not fundamentally, but the law authorizing them to do it will need a proper rework and introduce restrictions and oversight that are currently missing.