The German Constitutional Court on the Right in Confidentiality and Integrity of Information Technology Systems – a case report on BVerfG, NJW 2008, 822

Authors

  • Wiebke Abel SCRIPT, University of Edinburgh
  • Burkhard Schafer SCRIPT, University of Edinburgh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.060109.106

Abstract

On the 27th of February 2008, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) recognised in a landmark ruling for the first time a new constitutional right in the confidentiality and integrity of information technology systems. We will show in this case commentary why the Court found it necessary to introduce new legislation, and provide an overview of the newly established constitutional right.

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'6', by Wiebke Abel, Shawn H.E. Harmon and Yolande Stolte, The number 6 represents the number of years that SCRIPTed has been in existence and publishing quality scholarship. This photo of a human 6 was taken at the SCRIPTed conference, “Governance of New Technologies”, held in Edinburgh on 29-31 March 2009, and shows some of the conference delegates.

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Published

01-Apr-2009

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Analysis

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