German top court strikes down plank of anti-terror law

Germany’s top court said on Friday it had struck down a key passage of an anti-terror law on data protection grounds, raising the bar for security services to swap information.
The Federal Constitutional Court said the passage of the measure in question was too vague in granting permission for intelligence on terror suspects to be shared from a central security database.
It stipulated there must be an “overwhelming public interest” and a “sufficient concrete danger” of an attack to justify certain information being passed from one agency to another.