“The police need contemporary tools to be able to combat terrorists and controls even more effectively.” So far, so good that it is in the draft law to check measurement services. However, the recovery for surveillance has sharp criticism of the assessment. Now the project even threatens to fail because of the Neos resistance.
People are not yet convinced of the constitutional conformity of the current design, the smallest of the three coalition partners on Tuesday, the last day of the assessment. Neos MP Nikolaus Scherak told various media: “If the government program applies, this decision does not exist.” The Pinks doubt the constitutional conformity of the reform.
Data protection officers speak of “spy software”
Amnesty International and the data protection officers from Epicenter. Works again underlined their rejection on Tuesday. Both organizations also did not talk about Messenger monitoring, but about the “Bundestrojaner” or “Spionages software”. A constitutional and human rights conformer of this is excluded, said Charlotte Deiss van Amnesty. Thomas Lohninger from Epicenter.works reminded that four attempts for such a regulation have already failed. The now fifth project could not be implemented, it was hostile to fundamental rights and endangering it.
Where the draft law provides
The draft law, the assessment of which ends on Tuesday, offers the possibility of access to Messenger data for the security authorities. This must be limited to cases that indicate terrorist and constitutional activities. The use would also be possible with Spy. In short, according to the design, the authority of the measurement monitoring, which applies to WhatsApp and other services, can only be ordered for a period of three months, an extension would be possible. Afterwards the affected should be informed that their messengers were followed.
From the Ministry of the Interior, it was said that the government is focusing on collective rights in a Democratic state society, the right to security. For this you need the necessary and contemporary tools.
Source: Krone
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