What does this mean for `Datenschutz` in Germany? I can't imagine the courts would let this stand.

Datenschutz doesn't prevent court-ordered telecomms surveillance either. This would presumably fall in the same category. (Or in fact be unconstitutional, as BVerfG has already ruled several times regarding blanket data collection in other context.)

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tietjens 4 days ago | parent [-]

Ah, so my email address is highly private info. But all of my communications are not. Great.

	▲	DocTomoe 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, you see, you can trust Father State. He would never ever do anything bad with your data. Trust him. 1933-1945? 1948-1990? Those were ... different times. He's been on a twelve steps program. He's better now. Data to private companies? That baker that remembers your telelphone number that's DANGEROUS. He could sell the info how many breadrolls you buy per week to the FSB or the MSS. Also, we would lose a chance to add extra fines to small and medium companies, and no-one wants that, do we? ⸮ The older I become, the more 'government' - regardless of the colors it is wearing at the time - looks like Thénardier to me.

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aleph_minus_one 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> What does this mean for `Datenschutz` in Germany?

Datenschutz - Schmatenschutz.

"Datenschutz" is something that politicians talk about in their "Sonntagsreden" [Sunday sermons; a term hard to translate into English]. During the rest of the week, the politicians pass laws to gouge out civil liberties (because of "think of the children", "terrorists", "child abusers", "right-wing movements" - whatever is opportune in the current political climate).

	▲	tietjens 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I get what you mean, but Datenschutz and the bizarre processes built to appease it make an appearance almost every day here.