With the traffic lights out and the FDP leaving the federal government, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Feser (SPD) sees good chances of passing before the new Bundestag elections on February 23 a project that is close to her heart: the storage of IP addresses. This is independent of port number in doubt and stock. “I am absolutely clear in my stance: We need this data,” he stressed at the autumn meeting of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden on Wednesday. “They are often the only way to bring justice to victims of the most serious crimes and identify perpetrators.”
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Federal Council: Small businesses exempt from e-invoicing requirements
“Serious criminals go unpunished because we – unnecessarily – take away the tools we could have used to catch them,” Feser explained in his speechNevertheless, it was not possible to resume logging of user traces during the traffic light period, “especially because of the alliance partner”. They took the FDP to heart: the Liberals’ former federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann introduced a counter-proposal to freeze traffic data in suspicious cases at the outset and stuck to it to the end.
Facer is also moving ahead in facial recognition
The federal government actually agreed to this quick stop approach, but Feser did not want to accept it. “I’m not giving up yet, we still have a little time,” insisted Feser at BKA. She is also in talks with the CDU/CSU parliamentary group to resolve the issue before the elections. There she runs into the open doors. conservatives themselves in an application Advocated the introduction of maintaining IP addresses. He has already indicated that he will vote for it in parliament together with the SPD. According to Feser, it is urgently necessary to end the discussion about the terms of the framework and use the corridors shown by the European Court of Justice.
The minister stressed that German law enforcement officers lag behind in terms of technology and powers compared to other countries. When it comes to data retention, most EU states “have long had solutions in place”, equivalent to police access to analogue population registers. America is also ahead. There, artificial intelligence (AI) is already writing police reports or hearing shots in public places. AI is important for police to be able to efficiently evaluate increasing amounts of data. However, it should never be misused in the name of mass surveillance or undue interference with fundamental rights. Nevertheless, Feser once again called for investigators to be able to use biometric facial recognition to be able to track terrorists. The CDU/CSU-led states blocked a related proposal as part of a “security package” through the Federal Council because it did not go far enough. Facer is hopeful of a timely agreement here too.
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Federal Council: Small businesses are partially exempted from e-invoicing requirements
