Emails must not be filtered

Ruling: Emails must not be filtered - an important decision with potentially far-reaching consequences. For strengthening the right to email confidentiality, as well as the filtering issue, will certainly lead to conflicts in companies. Most importantly, it establishes the applicability of postal and telecommunications secrecy to email - a point that has often been problematic until now.

Of course, it remains to be seen what counts as a plausible reason for filtering in court - probably somewhat more than just virus protection. Still, a step in the right direction.