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		Tomte on March 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 ye... Same in Germany. Our Constitution Court invented a basic right to privacy in the 50s. Some years ago they got really modern and invented a second basic right, the "basic right to guarenteeing the confidentiality and integrity of data-processing systems".

rmc on March 22, 2016 [–]

Both of those things are in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Both the right to privacy and right of data protection.

Tomte on March 22, 2016 | [–]

But our Court invented them as new parts of our Constitution.

And the Charter post-dates the Court's decision on privacy by decades.

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