6.3 million Austrians will elect a new parliament on September 29, setting a new course not only in the “analogue” world. For the parties, the World Wide Web is no longer new territory, but a virtual space that they want to shape. Krone+ reveals the digital plans of local politics so that you can go to the polls informed.
The foiling of an Islamist terrorist attack in early August and the subsequent cancellation of American pop star Taylor Swift’s Vienna concert series have sparked a political debate on the topic of messenger: In order to better combat terrorism, you need access to encrypted communications via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram, the ÖVP-led Interior Ministry asked. But to do this, you would have to examine private cell phones with government spyware – a scenario that opponents of surveillance vehemently reject. We shed light on the rift that is rippling through the party landscape when it comes to the issue of surveillance – and reconstruct a remarkable change of heart among the Freedom Party.
Source: Krone
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