Court rules encrypted email provider Tutanota must monitor messages in blackmail case (Sean Gallup/Bongarts/Getty Images) Share May 24, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Germany has ruled that encrypted email provider Tutanota must monitor for three months the messages of accounts implicated in a blackmail case. The decision, which impacts two accounts in all, comes months after the Regional Court of Cologne ruled that Tutanota must provide said emails. Tutanota had asked BGH to re-examine that decision given that Tutanota does not consider itself a telecommunications service and therefore should not be required to monitor them under German law.