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Legal Limits of Investigative Journalism in Germany

Covert voice and video recordings by journalists under German law German law is rather obsessed with privacy and the protection of personal data. Here are two examples just to give you an idea how severely this affects everyday life. Actually, to such an extent that even Germans themselves constantly complain and moan about their own data protection laws.   Try, for instance, to obtain information from the German land registry (Grundbuch). In most Anglo-American jurisdictions, such…
Bernhard Schmeilzl
October 31, 2022