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The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a world political caesura and the beginning of a multi-layered state of emergency. This can be seen in many sociopolitical areas - with tangible consequences for our constitution and for the reality of fundamental rights. Be it stricter security laws,…

Information on our health is some of the most sensitive data stored about us. It therefore needs to be particularly well protected. The new "Digital Healthcare Act" (DVG) now threatens to weaken this protection. By October 1, 2022, the data of 73 million people with statutory health insurance will…

A peace prize for the arms industry, a fictitious press conference by Vattenfall announcing the end of coal and, finally, an association that is supposed to help "constitutional lawyers with scruples" to get out. The actions of the artists' collective Peng!, which they themselves describe as…

In February 2022, Facebook blocked the page of the Hamburg-based NGO Goliathwatch. The non-profit organization uses actions and demonstrations to campaign for limiting the power of large corporations like Meta. Goliathwatch was not informed by Facebook that its page would be blocked - nor were…

The GFF, jointly with the student group Unitin* and the German Society for Trans Identity and Intersexuality (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität e.V.), has filed a representative action under the Berlin State Anti-Discrimination Act (LADG) against the Humboldt University…

The new Security and Order Act (SOG) grants the police in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern numerous new surveillance powers in 2020, which deeply interfere with the fundamental rights of citizens*. Together with the alliance „SOGenannte Sicherheit“ we have filed a constitutional complaint against the law.…

Together with the journalist Michael Kreil, the GFF is filing a negative declaratory action against the Free State of Bavaria. The Bavarian State Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying (LDBV) had filed a criminal complaint against the journalist because he had published an allegedly…

In den vergangenen Jahren haben wir immer wieder gegen den umfassenden Einsatz von Staatstrojanern durch Polizei und Geheimdienste geklagt. Was sind Staatstrojaner, warum sehen wir sie kritisch und welche Gesetze greifen wir an? Als „Staatstrojaner“ wird Späh-Software bezeichnet, mit der Polizei…

In the summer of 2022, we filed a constitutional complaint against the Article 10 Act, which had been amended a year earlier. For the first time, this legislative amendment grants all 19 German intelligence services the authority to use highly intrusive spyware, known as “state trojans”, to read…

Because of her online dating profile, high-ranking Bundeswehr-military officer Anastasia Biefang received a disciplinary reprimand. The wording of her search for sexual partners went too far for her employer: on her profile, Biefang, who is in an open relationship, was clearly looking for unbound…