Das Bundesverfassungsgericht zur Online-Durchsuchung
blat.antville: Simon's Blawg | 27. Februar 2008 — im aktuellen Verfassungsschutzgesetz für Nordrhein-Westfalen (Pressemeldung): "§ 5 Abs. 2 Nr. 11 Satz 1 Alt. 2 VSG, der den heimli…
This week the Federal Constitutional Court announced its decision on the Federal Trojan (Bundestrojaner), the plan of the German Minister of the Interior to secretly inspect computers nationwide. This related specifically to legislation of North-Rhine Westphalia, but made it clear that the same result would apply to federal legislation. Press release of the court in German Decision in German It extends the general right of personality to create a new fundamental right: the 'fundamental right to the guarantee of the confidentiality and integrity of information-technology systems'. § 5 Abs. 2 Nr. 11 Satz 1 Alt. 2 VSG, der den heimlichen Zugriff auf informationstechnische Systeme regelt ("Online-Durchsuchung"), verletzt das allgemeine Persönlichkeitsrecht in seiner besonderen Ausprägung als Grundrecht auf Gewährleistung der Vertraulichkeit und Integrität informationstechnischer Systeme und ist nichtig. Section 5 (2) no. 11 sentence 1 alternative 2 of the Act on the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutzgesetz), which governs secret access to information-technology systems (known as the online search), infringes the general right of personality in the specific form of the fundamental right to the guarantee of confidentiality and integrity of information-technology systems and is void. This doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, so some German blawgs have been seeking a neater term for the new right. Telemedicus lists…
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blat.antville: Simon's Blawg | 27. Februar 2008 — Die Leitsätze: 1. Das allgemeine Persönlichkeitsrecht (Art. 2 Abs. 1 i.V.m. Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG) umfasst das Grundrecht auf Gewährlei…
A ruling against government surveillance of personal computers, delivered this week by a German court, has set a precedent: Computer users have the right to trust their IT equipment. What sounds wonkish could affect many aspects of life in the 21st century.
Eine kurze Bezeichnung für das „Grundrecht auf Vertraulichkeit und Integrität des informationstechnischen Systems“ wird noch...