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Alright, please now add this to your constitution. Hopefully other countries will follow.
by w4rh4wk5 1y ago
Alright, please now add this to your constitution. Hopefully other countries will follow.
- 9dev 1y agoGermany doesn’t have a constitution, but surveillance without grave suspicion is already illegal, hence the references to rule of law.
- w4rh4wk5 1y agoWhat do you mean, they don't have a constitution (Ger: Verfassung)?
- raxxorraxor 1y agoIt more or less a constitution. It is not effective though. It proposes your home is protected against state access, but that privilege is lost if you call a public official a dick. Such a constitution is empirically useless. No constitution is perfect, but the US one is probably still more or less the top spot.
- yencabulator 1y ago3rd paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Repu...
- rsynnott 1y agoIt's questionable whether Chat Control would have survived an engagement with the EU's can't-believe-it's-not-a-constitution (to avoid annoying eurosceptics, efforts to recast the treaties as a constitution were abandoned); other mass-surveillance-y stuff, notably the Data Retention Directive, were nuked by the ECJ.
- yencabulator 1y agoAlready done! > However, Finland cannot support the most recent compromise proposal because it contains a detection order that has been found problematic from a constitutional standpoint. https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministerial-committee-on-european-union-affairs-discusses-proposal-for-eu-regulation-on-combating-sexual-violence-against-children https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministerial-committee-on-euro... (Now the challenge is just holding politicians to it.)