News and Research articles on German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)

As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks.

The American aversion to big government is matched by the German aversion to big data. How to best reconcile the two privacy cultures, is the subject of this analysis.

KEYWORDS: Privacy, Legal tradition, Transatlantic, Data protection, Constitutional law

There are significant dangers in surveilling online communications unless the mechanisms and policies of surveillance are subject to strict and legally enforceable standards of transparency, oversight, and control.

KEYWORDS: Surveillance, Intelligence services, Base rate fallacy, Interception, Fundamental principles, Predictive algorithms, Privacy, Security, Content data, Communications data, Bundestrojaner, National Security Agency (NSA), PRISM, Tempora, Encryption, Liability, Transparency, Cyber security, Content, Censorship, Filtering

News and Research articles on German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)

A new milestone for data protection in Brazil

Bridging the transatlantic divide in privacy

Necessary and inherent limits to internet surveillance

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