A German user demands information from an internationally active social network as to whether US intelligence services have accessed his data. The Bonn Regional Court has now dismissed the claim, but is causing diplomatic waves with its decision.
In its reasoning, the court states “that different data protection practices apply on the other side of the Atlantic”, writes the specialist legal portal “Beck-Online”. This has already been proven by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
This fact “exposes statements made by the Vice President of the USA in Munich in February 2025 to ridicule”: JD Vance had bahupted that the civil liberties of citizens in Germany were less protected than in the USA.
“Right-wing extremists have always been known in court to be the greatest enemies of individual freedom,” the Bonn court is quoted as saying. “Nevertheless, the US state has learned little or nothing since then.” Trumsp’s government is “openly right-wing extremist and populist”.
But that’s not all: “In addition, right-wing extremists are generally the most corrupt kind of politicians, because the ideological basis of right-wing extremism is unreasonably excessive (national and individual) egoism,” the Germans emphasize. There are “clearly anti-democratic, anti-constitutional, autocratic to fascist tendencies” in Washington.
The Bonn Regional Court and the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia did not wish to comment on the ruling when asked by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper. A spokesman for the US embassy expressed irritation at the verdict.
