Obituary for Artikel 10 Grundgesetz on GnuPG website

[Sam Pablo Kuper]

On 05/02/16 03:56, Matthias Mansfeld wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2016 at 0:36, Sam Pablo Kuper wrote:
>> "Article 10 of the German constitution (communication privacy) is not
>> anymore with us."
>>
>> I would be grateful to know what happened (on 18 December 2015) to
>> prompt the posting of this statement on the GnuPG website.
> 
> This is the day when new (I say old zombie) data retention laws in 
> Germany came in force (... again...)
> 
> Articel 10 of our Grundgesetz (= "German Constitution") used to cover 
> privacy in telecommunication and generally all digital communication, 
> "Fernmeldegeheimnis", but this seems to be more and more worthless 
> with these old, new laws....
> 
> http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/46/42/lang,en/
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorratsdatenspeicherung
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention (the 
> last one is outdated...)

Thank you!

- spk