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Berlin (dpa) - According to a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court, higher hurdles will apply in the future to government access to personal data of cell phone and Internet users.

The Bundestag passed a law that makes it more difficult for the security authorities to call up so-called inventory data for criminal prosecution and counter terrorism.

At the same time, the law against hate crime, which has already been passed, is being improved, in which similar regulations for data retrieval were previously provided.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stopped the law last year due to constitutional concerns.

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In addition to the name and address of the user, the so-called inventory data also includes passwords and bank details.

Up to now, such data queries were generally allowed to avert danger, to prosecute criminal offenses and administrative offenses and to fulfill intelligence tasks.

However, the Karlsruhe judges decided that this is only permissible in the event of a specific impending danger, which is why the law had to be changed.

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