Monthly archive: November, 2007

Off to the Bundesverfassungsgericht it goes.

Posted on November 10, 2007 at 12:26 AM

November 9th:

1923: Hitler-Ludendorff putsch.
1938: Reichskristallnacht.
2007: Vorratsdatenspeicherung. (de)

The pattern here is clear.

Jep, today the Bundestag decided to go against the will of the people, against the Grundgesetz (The german constitution), and agaist the likeley decision of the European Court and the highest german court, and passed a law permitting the government to use all the peoples connection data, be it from internet or phones, for pretty much whatever. It also mandates ISPs to keep said data. This is, of course, to protect us from the terrorists!

Nevermind that the econonic impact of having to store all this data will pretty much kill small ISPs, worsening the situation on an already pretty monopolistic market.

Nevermind that studies showed that 99.9% of all that data will never be even requested by police, and that, obviously, the biggest part of all that data is about completley innocent people, a crass violation of people rights.

Nevermind that this creates a climate of fear, in which people are afraid to say what they think.

Nevermind that this data will be misused, by people inside the system, and computer criminals outside the system.

Nevermind that it’s trivial for actual criminals to work around this with the likes of TOR and with stong cryptography.

Nevermind that this is a slippery slope to worse laws, and that laws like this usually only exist in facist states, like the DDR.

Nevermind all this, we have to have this law, as there is no other way to protect us from the immense terrorist threat.

What follows now is the biggest number of lawsuits about a single issue ever brought before germans highest court (Over 7000 people, and all opposition parties will file suit). As this is so clearly against the fundamental right of informational self-determination, this law must go. Or the terrorists, wanting to destroy our freedoms, win.