Jusletter IT

The dimension of government interferences in our private lives and informational self-determination can only be captured correctly when considering the total of all interventions. The paper is meant to give a first overview of the norms that must be evaluated based on the first work package of the project HEAT. In doing so, the neuralgic points in the legal system are scrutinized and the connection between private companies’ obligations to cooperate, e.g. based on the E-Commerce law and the Telecommunications law, and powers of authorities according to the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Security Police Act is presented as well as the meshing of authorities within the individual steps of investigative work. Finally, the article provides an outlook towards future steps to the formation of a «catalogue of measures for the evaluation of anti-terror-laws». (ah)