Curtea constitutionala federala (Germania) despre neconstitutionalitatea legii landului Rinul de nord-Westfalia privind supravegherea internetului
Scris de sketis pe februarie 28, 2008
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The court overturned a controversial law adopted in the western state of North-Rhine Westphalia in 2006 that gave intelligence agencies wide-ranging powers to hack into terror suspects’ computers.
“The law violates the right to privacy and is null and void,” the court said in a statement.
It added that Internet surveillance risked being a greater intrusion on privacy than telephone tapping and that it therefore had to close loopholes in legislation that did not take into account new technology and the central role it played in people’s lives.
But it ruled that in principle introducing software onto suspects’ computers to facilitate surveillance could be allowed in cases where “rights of supreme importance” were at stake.
The court said that in each case, the surveillance had to be approved by a judge, and that even then intelligence agencies would not be allowed to use the information if it pertains strictly to people’s private lives.
The court ruling came in response to a legal challenge to the North-Rhine Westphalia legislation brought by a left-wing opposition politician, three lawyers and a journalist.
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