[arvidkahl]

"Dieser Eingriffsanlass bleibt angesichts der besonders daten- und methodenoffen formulierten Befugnisse weit hinter der wegen des konkreten Eingriffsgewichts verfassungsrechtlich gebotenen Schwelle einer konkretisierten Gefahr zurück."

This roughly translates into "there has to be a sufficiently concrete danger to warrant such a ambiguously formulated infringement."

I truly appreciate this sentiment. Any collection or analysis of data "just because there might be something in there" has to be weighed against the right of everyone that is being data-mined.

This freaked me out about Minority Report when I first watched it: those precogs are essentially hacking into the future memories of everyone involved in _and by happenstance surrounding_ the lives of future criminals and their crimes.

Mass-scale datamining is effectively the real-world equivalent of telepathy. And I want neither precogs nor the government in my mind.