Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that some of the methods used by the country’s police to collect and store data are unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court ruled that secret surveillance that extends to a suspect’s contacts is a serious intrusion, and safeguards in current German criminal law are insufficient to establish close proximity to the underlying crime or threat being investigated. New limits on the storage of personal data by police are also needed, the court ruled. For example, previous accusations alone against a person are not enough to establish a sufficient li…