03 Mar 2008

Jenseits von Persönlichkeitsentfaltung

I’ve always thought our German cousins/ancestors, whose language is well suited to trenchant philosophising, would be the first to articulate some of the deepest technical-privacy issues. And a promising sign will be the emergence of fabulous compound words to describe new concepts in the identity space. I hazarded a student-German guess about Privatlebennotwendigkeitbewußtsein. Now I gather there’s a constitutional (Grundgesetz) protection for something called Persönlichkeitsentfaltung which I think means the development of one’s identity.

Help, someone. What would be the German word for a fundamental right, enshrined in the constitution, to privacy which cannot be overridden at the convenience of Kafkaesque bureaucracy?

 
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