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What do you think of the German Supreme Court's decision to declare the 2008 data retention law unconstitutional?
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March 3rd, 2010
The 2008 law required telecommunication companies to store all communication data (when, how long, between whom) for at least 6 months. The law met with fierce public resistence and finally this week, the court determined that the law violated the right to privacy in an extremely severe manner and thus unconstitutional. It also ruled that communication data stored so far must be deleted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8545772.stm
What do you think of this decision? Would you have decided the same way? Give reasons why or why not you would have. Do you think the U.S. Supreme court would have decided likewise?
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