Maybe the person who first enabled his privacy to be breached should be worried then? You know ... the private citizen who hit the media with tales of a German prisoner in jail in Germany, but not the one doing life. followed by a mocked up photograph of him with long hair and a picture of the vehicle he was allegedly driving.
T'would always be a starting point to test exactly how robust the privacy laws in Germany shape up.
Still missing the point. Privacy is one aspect - but what I can tell you about privacy in Germany when it comes to criminality, is that they take the concept of rehabilitation seriously, and that is only fully possible with the adherence to strict privacy laws, sometimes extending to post conviction. It's a basic tenet of their legal system and one of the reasons why their recidivism rate is one of the lowest in the Western world.
So on the one hand you have this enshrined privacy, that's probably been breached innumerable times, and on the other you have the civil aspect of libel across perpetrated across just about any medium you can think of - it's more of a matter of which of the turkeys to shoot first.
Hey, maybe one his lawyers will pop over to have a look at this place.