In a victory for privacy advocates, Germany’s highest court on Tuesday knocked down an anti-terrorism law that allows authorities to store all phone and internet records of private citizens.
The Karlsruhe-based Constitutional Court ruled that the mass storage of private records breaches Germany’s constitution, effectively overturning a law passed in 2008 that compels communications companies to keep tabs on customer phone and internet usage for six months.
The court also demanded that data already stored be deleted ”immediately,” according to the website of news magazine Der Spiegel.
Read more in The Local (De). The Globe and Mail in Canada also covers the news.