Date: 2023
Type: Article
Like handing my whole life over : the German Federal Administrative Court’s landmark ruling on mobile phone data extraction in asylum procedures
Verfassungsblatt, 2023, No. 2, pp. 234-237
PALMIOTTO, Francesca, OZKUL, Derya, Like handing my whole life over : the German Federal Administrative Court’s landmark ruling on mobile phone data extraction in asylum procedures, Verfassungsblatt, 2023, No. 2, pp. 234-237
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On 16 February 2023, the German Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) ruled that the practice of regularly analysing data carriers, including mobile phones, by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) when registering asylum applicants is illegal (BVerwG 1 C 19.21). The judgement arrives after the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte’s (GFF) efforts to reveal this practice’s details and take legal action against its use in the asylum procedure. In this post, we briefly overview this practice and analyse this judgement and its implications. We argue that although this judgement represents an important victory for asylum seekers’ and refugees’ data protection and privacy, some controversial aspects of this practice still require clarification.
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Published online: 28 February 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77526
Full-text via DOI: 10.17176/20230228-185227-0
ISSN: 2366-7044
External link: https://verfassungsblog.de/like-handing-my-whole-life-over/
Publisher: Verfassungsblog
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