A controversial law forcing communications companies to keep records of customers’ phone and internet use for six months was to be scrutinised on Tuesday by the constitutional court after 34,000 people lodged appeals against the law. Germany’s highest court, based in Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, was to examine 60 separate legal questions regarding…
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Ie: Supreme Court rules against woman in frozen embryo case
The Supreme Court has today unanimously ruled a woman cannot have three frozen embryos implanted against the wishes of her estranged husband. The five-judge court has also found that the embryos are not protected as ‘the unborn’ under the Constitution. The three frozen embryos have been stored in the Sims fertility clinic in Dublin since…
AU: Internet censorship plan gets the green light
Asher Moses reports: The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet. But critics, including the online users’ lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam,…
Germans to get controversial new ID cards in 2010
Kristin Allen reports: The German Interior Ministry confirmed on Monday that new identification cards containing radio-frequency (RFID) chips will be introduced starting November 1, 2010 – but some data protection experts are critical of the decision. “It’s smaller than the old one, but can do a lot more,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said in…