Bundesverfassungsgericht - Decisions - Data retention unconstitutional in its present form
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2. The complainants in the proceedings 1 BvR 263/08 challenge not only §§ 113a and 113b TKG but 117
also § 100g StPO to the extent that it concerns the collection of the data stored pursuant to § 113a TKG.
They challenge a violation of Article 1.1, Article 2.1 in conjunction with Article 1.1, Article 10.1 and
Article 19.2 GG.
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3. The complainants in the proceedings 1 BvR 586/08 also challenge §§ 113a and 113b TKG and § 100g 134
StPO. They challenge the violation of Article 10.1 and Article 2.1 in conjunction with Article 1.1 GG.
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III.
Opinions on the constitutional complaints were submitted by the Federal Government, the Federal 146
Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht ), the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof ), the
Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Bundesbeauftragter für den
Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit ) and, on behalf of the commissioners for data protection of the
Länder , by the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of the Land Berlin.
1. The Federal Government regards the constitutional complaints as inadmissible in part, at any rate as 147
unfounded.
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2. The Federal Administrative Court considers the challenged provisions an encroachment upon 165
Article 10.1 GG whose justification is doubtful. […]
3. Through the Chairman of its First Criminal Senate and one of the pretrial judges, the Federal Court of 166
Justice points out that to date in the case of criminal offences committed by means of telecommunications,
data which would have allowed an identification of the perpetrator had normally already been deleted
when the request for information was made. […]
4. The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information regards the storage of 167
data without cause pursuant to § 113a TKG as unconstitutional. […]
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5. The Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of the Land Berlin considers the 171
essence of the secrecy of telecommunications violated by §§ 113a and 113b TKG. […]
6. The experts Ms Constanze Kurz, Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfitzmann, Prof. Dr. 172
Alexander Roßnagel, Prof. Dr. Christoph Ruland, the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and
Freedom of Information, the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of the Land
Berlin, the Federal Ministry of Justice assisted by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and
by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the complainants in the proceedings 1 BvR 256/08 and 1 BvR
263/08 as well as the Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V.
(BITKOM), the Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e.V. (eco) and the Verband der Anbieter von
Telekommunikations- und Mehrwertdiensten e.V. (VATM) have made statements regarding technical,
factual and legal questions of the Court. They concerned the telecommunications traffic data, the persons
obliged to perform data retention, the crimes committed by means of telecommunications, the giving of
information pursuant to § 113 TKG, the securing of the retained data against unauthorised access and the
possible legal provisions on the use of such data. In the drafting of the opinion by the Federal Ministry of
Justice, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur ) cooperated via the Ministry of Economics and
Technology; the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt ); the Federal Office for the Protection
of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz ) and the Federal Public Prosecutor General
(Generalbundesanwältin ) cooperated through the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
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