Germany: : Federal Supreme Court considers victims’ ability to recognise themselves as sufficient

• Autores: Robin Zeiger
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 9-10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In its judgment of 26 February 2015 (case no. 4 StR 328/14), the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) decided that video footage in which victims of crime can recognise themselves on the basis of identifiable personal features is covered by the criminal law provision enshrined in Article 201a(1) of the old version of the Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code - StGB) (Article 201a(1)(1) of the 49th Act amending the Criminal Code). This provision is designed to protect the intimate privacy of individuals from intrusion through the taking of video and photographs.