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| A woman who got pregnant after having sex with a male escort in a German hotel has failed in a legal battle to find out his name. | A woman who got pregnant after having sex with a male escort in a German hotel has failed in a legal battle to find out his name. |
| The hotel where they spent three nights in 2010, in the city of Halle, does not have to tell her the man's name, a court in Munich ruled. | |
| The man's right to privacy outweighed the woman's claim for child support payments from him, the ruling said. | The man's right to privacy outweighed the woman's claim for child support payments from him, the ruling said. |
| She knew him as "Michael" but three other Michaels were also at the hotel. | |
| Each of the four Michaels had a right to "control their own data and protect their own marriage and family", the ruling said. | Each of the four Michaels had a right to "control their own data and protect their own marriage and family", the ruling said. |
| The case was heard at the Munich District Court because the hotel chain is based in the Bavarian city. Halle is in eastern Germany. | |
| The woman - not named in the case - said she had got pregnant after staying with "Michael" in a room on the second floor. She now has a seven-year-old son called Joel. | |
| The court decided that her lack of detail about the man raised the risk of personal data "simply being released at random". | The court decided that her lack of detail about the man raised the risk of personal data "simply being released at random". |
| "Nor is it certain that the Christian name is indeed the name of the man in question," the court said. | "Nor is it certain that the Christian name is indeed the name of the man in question," the court said. |
| German privacy laws are among the strictest in Europe. It is partly a legacy of history - under the Nazis, then later under the communist East German regime, there was intrusive mass surveillance, with grievous human rights abuses. | |
| The Munich Appeal Court backed the verdict and decided not to review the case, a court spokeswoman told the BBC. | |
| The case is now closed, in terms of German civil law, she added. |