• May 22, 2020 |
• Caleb Chen |
• General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Germany’s highest court rules individual right to privacy applies to everyone, even non-Germans

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court in the country, has ruled that parts of a 2016 law that allowed monitoring of the internet activity of foreign targets outside of Germany are unconstitutional. This landmark ruling will force the Merkel government to update laws governing Germany’s foreign intelligence agency: The BND. Essentially, the … Continue reading “Germany’s highest court rules individual right to privacy applies to everyone, even non-Germans”

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