Neos Question with 3 points – Monitoring of Messenger – Apps on the home rack

So on Tuesday it was said in negotiating circles. In particular, the NEOs recently urged further improvements when it comes to legal protection, abuse prevention and control over the software.

An agreement may be considered with the NEOs, but not cut into stone. “There are still a few hours for intensive negotiations. The still excellent points are a mandatory condition for a constitutional solution. We are working hard to achieve one” Negotiations will be negotiated intensively on Tuesday.

Neos wants to see three points implemented
In particular, the Neos is on three points: firstly, the judicial control over the approval for the mission must be extended – a judge here is a judge. Secondly, the selected software must “be checked intensively” and its possibilities to read Messenger data without damage to other systems. As a third point, the Neo’s “strictest consequences” require in the case of an abuse of supervision.

According to the eight -week assessment that the party requires, negotiations had been made in the last 14 days and concerns of the assessment were included. In general, there must be more than two dozen changes – including the restriction to 30 applications per year to the integration of parliament and the significant strengthening of the legal protection officer in the Ministry of the Interior.

Still serious worries at the beginning of June
At the beginning of June the NEOs also said that this decision does not exist: “if the government program applies”. Because in the government program of ÖVP, Spö and Neos it is said that the solution must be “constitutional”. Neos Party Leader Beate Meinl Reisinger had already shown itself confidently at the beginning of June, despite the worries that the constitutional conformity could still be achieved.

Sharp criticism of the original design
In the assessment of the original design, the new attempt at surveillance had encountered sharp criticism. Amnesty International and the data protection officers from Epicenter.works did not talked about Messenger monitoring, but about the “Bundestrojaner” or “Spionage software”. A constitutional and human rights conformer is excluded, for example, emphasizes amnesty. Epicenter.works recalled that four attempts for such a regulation had already failed.

The Judges’ Association had also stated in her statement that some concern was taken into account in advance. However, the regime provided in the draft remains behind the clear requirements of the constitutional court. From a technical point of view, it cannot currently be ensured that only sharing the communication of a mobile phone can be read, concerns were also expressed in the independence of the legal protection officer and with regard to the extra burden of the already weak court.

René Mayrhofer from the University of Linz saw the supervision that the government was only used at the beginning of June if the security slacunes were used, which are practically promoted. It will be invested in the uncertainty of all devices instead of continuously improving them.