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| NEW: 🇩🇪Germany's top court says spyware severely violates fundamental rights.                                        |
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| Bans spyware in cases with <3year sentences.                                                                         |
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| Enforces tough proportionality tests on all surveillance.                                                            |
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| https://blossom.primal.net/c1cb0062fe7c265c22c8d71453b0ba4ac6686c1aedb23f72b02e4b4e2801fb86.png                      |
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| Restricts spyware to serious cases.                                                                                  |
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| Interesting development.                                                                                             |
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| https://blossom.primal.net/a2ba5661ae80e0ddc56672a4186b5e6dabac8d8c18691a9b4ff7fe0232e6c6bc.png                      |
| Court says: capturing data at the source (i.e. on someone's phone) is maximally invasive.                            |
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| Especially given how much of our lives happens online.                                                               |
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| They also surface the security risks to systems from this kind of surveillance.                                      |
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| Watching Germany's highest court grapple with spyware's invasiveness & rights violations is instructive.             |
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| States wielding spyware without robust legal limitations and tight judicial oversight... are almost guaranteed to be |
| violating their citizens' basic rights.                                                                              |
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| In so many jurisdictions, state secrecy & lack of effective legal challenges means spyware harms happening daily     |
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| Huge credit to German digital freedoms organization #digitalcourage                                                  |
| for bringing this case.                                                                                              |
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| Court statement:                                                                                                     |
| https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2025/bvg25-069.html                         |
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