Massenzugriff der Staatsanwaltschaft auf Kundendaten von Banken zur Ermittlung von Internetstraftaten

The safeguard of the rights of non-suspects is the key aspect for the legal discussion about new techniques of criminal investigatons deriving from IT - especially for the mass access of public procecuters to customer data of private companies. In a routine manner criminal courts refer to the general legal basis of the criminal code. But this general legal basis does not fulfill the requirements whether of the German Data Protection Law nor of the new directive 2016/680, which has to be implemented into national law until 6th of Mai 2018. At the same time the constitutional court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) does not see the far reaching consequences for the rights and freedoms of the non-suspects in the referring decision of the case „Mikado“ - the starting point of this legal analysis.