Germany understands privacy better

Not only have finally 30.000 Germans actually defended our hard earned right by going to the courts a few weeks ago.

This week similarly they have shown the limit of traffic control and government data collecting. One German went to the high court, because the government used speed camera data for other purposes. Putting all cars, plus passage data in the databases, for catching just a few stolen cars as an extra, a gross privacy infringement.

He won and the high-court judge nicely explained why such agressive data collecting of government makes people suspicious or even afraid. Interesting case, for sure, since a more limited variant is used in the netherlands. Moreover, the plans of france and the netherlands for pay-by-usage systems in a few years from now goes much further. This is a follow-up story for sure…

Ow and Google will acquire DoubleClick, the EU sees no profiling issues.

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