Germany’s top court to re-examine data storage law

Posted on Dec 16, 2009 in Records Management News

EURONEWS 16/12 07:09

Germany’s top court to re-examine data stor­age law

CETGermany’s high­est court has begun exam­in­ing a con­tro­ver­sial data stor­age
law, in what is the country’s biggest ever lawsuit.

The con­sti­tu­tional court must decide the legal­ity of keep­ing phone and
inter­net records after more than 34,000 peo­ple, includ­ing the cur­rent
jus­tice min­is­ter, filed an action to over-turn the law.

Since 2008, Ger­man tele­com firms have been required to store all phone and
inter­net usage for six months — some­thing Police and sup­port­ers say is
cru­cial to help pre­vent ter­ror­ism and crime.

That data is not sup­posed to be recorded, lis­tened to or read, just kept to
see who emailed or phoned whom, and what web­sites were visited.

Oppo­nents how­ever claim the room for abuse or error is huge and more than
10,000 took to the streets of Berlin recently call­ing for the laws
abolition.

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