Germany’s Top Court Extends Privacy Rights to Foreigners, Halts Wiretap Programs

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10 pointsKarlKemp4 comments

> Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that monitoring the internet traffic of foreign nationals abroad by the BND intelligence agency partly breaches the constitution.

Does that mean that the German intelligence agencies have just effectively been banned from spying?

Considering the importance of online communications this would sound like a very bad outcome.

Not fundamentally, but the law authorizing them to do it will need a proper rework and introduce restrictions and oversight that are currently missing.

My partner works at the NGO and was part of the team that brought, fraught, and won this case (https://freiheitsrechte.org/english/). Happy o (try to) answer any questions.

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