http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200531-013615-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/rights-reaching-beyond-borders/ Rights reaching beyond Borders Reinke, Benedikt eng 2020-05-30 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 BND extraterritoriale Geltung intelligence services Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The German Federal Constitutional Court's ruling on the BND establishes that the German fundamental rights guarantee protections against the interference of a German state authority like the BND also for non-German nationals in non-German territory. The court, however, leaves the question unaddressed of whether the extra-territorial applicability of the German fundamental rights extends to other scenarios as well, and especially to the other dimensions of the German fundamental rights.