OMFG! Common sense has prevailed - now why can't a similar thing happen in the UK?????!!!!

Hopefully Wacqui Jacqui Schmidt, Geoff Hun and Herr Braun will notice this and take account of common sense when promoting the Uberdatabase.

On the other hand, their authoritarian bias knows no bounds - all we can hope for is a General Election sometime soon.

Arslochen, the lot of 'em.

when we Brits are being told "Ve gif ze orders" by Obergruppenfuhrer Smith, that a German court curbs the state and protects freedom & privacy.

If Churchill were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.....

Unlike NuLab who are spinning just about everywhere...

'Freedom' for the Germans; psychotic, power crazed control freak dictators for us!

as the "secret online search" has just been approved by the german Bundestag. So the police- gumshoes do not need this database, because they can just break your door and install spyware at your home and equipment...

It's probable that the court will put the brake on this "law" too, but it's the next very big drip to wear away constitutional rights.

It's difficult to see a government create an instrument so reminding of Gestapo just to save ... what? the constitution??

Just let your neighbors spy and exchange the information, like Echelon and the US/UK before Bush tore off the figleaf and just let the NSA spy directly on US citiz**bzrrrrrrrt!**.

At least the Germans will revisit laws and change them if they are used in a manner not consistent with the arguments for them made at their introduction.

Not like in the UK where our government misuses terrorist laws to stop other countries companies from taking money out of the country (although those Icelandic people do look a bit violent :)). And where councils use terrorist laws to spy on people putting out their bins a day early.

Next election, tell the muppet standing at your door looking for a vote that they wont get it until they change the damn big brother laws and stop using terror laws to terrorise the people they are meant to protect.

According to NuLabour, we are all under such a risk anyway - event those of us living in places like Thurso, or the Shetlands - hence the existing invasions of privacy / accidental executions of Brasilian visitors.

You have nothing to fear. Big Brother is watching out for you to keep you safe from the evildoers who run amuck because of the failure of previous administrations to do their job of protecting you.

Now that we have control we will be able to watch everywhere and see that NO ONE is above the law and able to get away with anything (well, almost no one...we're still not going to let you watch US).