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A major victory for privacy

By scribe, Section Diaries
Posted on Wed Mar 03, 2010 at 09:48:44 AM EST
Tags: surveillance, wiretapping, data mining, privacy (all tags)
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Yesterday, there was a major victory for privacy.  Unfortunately, it was not in the US.  The German Constitutional Court threw out as unconstitutional a law which required storage of all flavors of electronic data on everyone.  Further, they required that the databases which had been built to comply with that law be erased.  Immediately.

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