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am 04.03.2006 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
CJ - Washington. On March 2, 2006, the Constitutional Supreme Court in Karlsruhe announced its decision on a constitutional complaint of a judge from Heidelberg concerning the secrecy of telecommunication, a constitutional right embodied in Art. 10(1) of the German constitution, Grundgesetz, in the matter 2 BvR 2099/04.
The justices held that the secrecy of telecommunication extends only to the transmission of a communication. Such protection expires with the termination of the transmission.
The court decided that electronic data such as stored EMails which result from a completed transmission of data and are saved on the addressees system are not protected by the secrecy principle governing telecommunications. For such data, the right of self-determination, Art. 2(1), Art. 1 (1) of …
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