March 13, 2010
Last week, the Federal Constitutional Court delivered its judgment in terms of retention: It violates the fundamental right to protection of telecommunication secrecy, so Judge Hans-Jürger paper. A clear stop sign so for the monitoring zeal of our government. And that the "slap" probably hurt, representative shows the response of the internal experts of the CDU, Wolfgang Bosbach, the insulted after recording the ZDF talk show "Michael Lanz" the chairman of the civil rights organization FoeBud e. V. behind the scenes as "flat pipe" should have, as the club reported on 4 March via newsletter.
The majority of Germans in any case is likely to be facilitated. Against the law around 35,000 people had filed an appeal, something it never was before. It has proven that citizens do not want to be glassy.
The telecommunications company seemed rather surprised by the verdict. Nevertheless, they immediately began deleting the stock data , especially the Telecom and Vodafone. The cost for all the effort they will probably be reimbursed by the State . On the one hand understandable, for this she had forced his bill for the construction of complex memory architecture. On the other hand, I do not see why taxpayers should pay for something he did not want to have a majority. Would it not even appropriate here to ask our overzealous and security obsessed politicians to Checkout?
Anyway: To some observers, speaks at the judgment of the German constitutional judges of a Pyrrhic victory. Because the original data retention comes from Brussels: The EU calls on the Member States to collect the telecommunications data of citizens and kept for one year (a surprisingly critical transmission item in ZDF presented in a comprehensible way out). No wonder, then, that even vehemently claims are being made from the ranks of the ruling parties, new ways to celebrate, "save" the data. The Working Group on Data Retention, a nationwide association of civil rights activists, privacy advocates and Internet users has, therefore, a campaign against the re-introduction of data retention started.
Moreover, we do not know anyway, whether in secret stored and recorded. And not only the state, also Google & Co. operate retention basically.
Retention is in our brave new world of surveillance no longer the only deep incision in the freedom of movement of citizens. CCTV, "the great bugging" biometric data collection, ELENA, etc., etc. - the data collecting mania seems to have no end. SPIEGEL ONLINE has a very interesting animation found on their website that you should definitely take a look. It shows shockingly, when, where and how we left clear traces in the daily routine.
According to unconfirmed statements equipped with RFID chips Euro bills could now even be brought into circulation. Against the backdrop of a possible Bankenruns (which Citigroup seems to take appropriate safeguards already ) a scenario that really is worth to be thought through again. Already in 2003, had reported about this project media . If the assumption were correct, it could also facilitate the personal cash control significantly the authorities ...
And as well, the question of questions: How will we, our society and a lurking ourselves against domination everywhere "Big Brother" can sustainably protect?
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