Extraterritorial Bulk Surveillance after the German BND Act Judgment

Abstract

Foreign surveillance as a means of circumventing existing legal safeguards - Different perspectives on the problem of the extraterritorial application of fundamental rights in US and EU legal models - The limited usefulness of effective control tests for establishing the responsibility of states for action taken in cyberspace - Judgment of Bundesverfassungsgericht in the BND Act case as an interpretative guideline for the regulation of foreign surveillance in EU member states - Electronic surveillance as a threat to European integration process..