Sunday, March 23, 2008

Privacy ...

Fortunately, the Germans understand their peoples' right to privacy:

Civil liberties' groups in Germany have welcomed a landmark legal blow against what they call anti-terrorism snooping. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a person's telephone and internet records must still be stored, but denied automatic police access to it, except for inquiries into serious crime.

Court spokesman Dietlind Weiland said: "The right to store information remains, but it can only be used in cases of serious offences, like murder, rape or extortion." Following terrorist attacks in London and Madrid, Berlin introduced a law requiring telecoms firms to keep records of who contacted whom, when, where and how.

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Too bad our rights have been flushed by the Bush government. Think our Supreme Court would stand up for the people or the corporations?

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