Ray of Hope? Example ('best practice')?
From Rop Gonggrijp's blog, March 1, 2008:
But even a long-term privacy-pessimist as myself now has to recognize that
in this rising sea of privacy-intrusions, the citizens of one country seem
to be raising and maintaining at least some of their defenses. And while
that metaphor clearly shows my national origin, it is unfortunately not my
own country where people are successfully defending themselves.
The German federal constitutional court, the Bundesverfassungsgericht, has
nullified a state law that would have allowed broad introduction of
government sanctioned spyware. And, even more importantly, in its ruling
(heres a shorter press release) the court has created a much broader
fundamental constitutional protection. They have acknowledged the concept
that our lives now extend into the technology we use and stated that our
lives in this new space are just as worthy of constitutional protection as
our lives in any of the other places where we live. In Germany, the
concept of a constitutionally protected most inner private sphere now
clearly extends to our homes in the digital world.
The future of a proposed federal equivalent to this now-nullified state
law is uncertain, and the wording of this new concept also sheds strong
doubts on whether the proposed data-rentention laws will be ruled
constitutional. (A ruling on this is still outstanding.)
full text:
http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=66
Cheers, p+2D!
