In their coalition agreement, CDU, CSU and SPD have repeatedly agreed to resume priority data retention on IP addresses and port numbers. The President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), Holgar Munch, can hardly wait. “We are eagerly waiting for the applied law,” said the chief investigator in an interview with Frankfurt Rangschau (FR). As a reason, he said: “IP address is often the only way to determine which device was committed.”
For example, such as in children’s pornography, that is, mapping of sexual abuse, BKA receives more than 200,000 information in a year “,”, “,”, “,” Munch leadsAccording to German law, more than half of them are relevant under criminal law. “We try to understand more than 100,000 information” which computer or which mobile device was used. With a maximum of seven days of current period, “We can clarify a good 40 percent of the deeds through IP address. We make around 35 percent with further data. Law Enforcement Officers are confident:” We will be very successful here in future. “
Data security in BKA boss is not worried. The intervention with civil rights is “extremely low”, he claims. The BKA IP does not collect the address itself, but ask the providers if necessary. Münch is particularly promoting politicians for “data retention limited to child pornography”.
Quick freeze traffic lights wanted
Between CDU/CSU and SPD, a debate in Bundestag was finally to be stored in December in December. The federal council promotes a one -mentor “minimum storage” of internet identifiers to combat serious crime. CDU and CSU put a shovel on it with their own bills: they urged the port numbers as well as the three-month uncomfortable logging and radio cell query Alias cell phone grid search of the IP address.
SPD is now a trick in the coalition agreement. During traffic light time, things looked different. Former-Associate Justice Minister Marco Buschman (FDP) quickly presented traffic data to a counter-proposal and stuck to the end. The federal government actually agreed to this quick freeze approach, which did not want to accept the Federal Internal Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) especially. In the previous Grand alliance, many times data retention was to enter the stomach with its legislative resolutions.
Federal Data Protection Officer Lewis Speech-Rimensionder says the period of three months is comparatively short. “But I still look at the contradictions of the national and European case law,” he emphasized the FR. Even BKA believes in the field of illustration of misuse “that the success rate above two to three weeks above the memory liability no longer does not grow significantly”. A court can orient itself to such studies and concludes that a completely required period should not go beyond the required period.
Protest by data protectionists and civil rights workers
The more fundamental criticism practiced the erstwhile Ulrich Kelbar of Specht-Remenschneider in summer in an interview with Hyz online: According to him, data retention is “a version of continuous monitoring. This is done regardless of whether someone has done anything illegal. This is “long with a free democracy if someone always looks at the shoulder”.
Kelbar also warned that a relevant monitoring measure is limited to IP address and hence it is problematic. Above all, time is still necessary in which possible knowledge benefits will be extremely low. In theory, the European Court has repeatedly rejected an incidentless data retention. According to recent decisions by Luxembourg Judges, normal and unavoidable storage of IP addresses “may be allowed to prevent public safety for a completely required period” to protect national security, to combat serious crimes, and prevent serious threats for public safety “.
The Caos Computer Club (CCC) recently asked for “Emergency Break for Monitoring Catalogs” in the coalition agreement. It observes large -scale monitoring at many levels including telecommunications data. Civil rights organizations such as Society for Freedom Rights or SPD-related Network Policy Association D64 are also afraid of basic freedom through data retention and automatic Big data analysis, for which Münch also ends.
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