The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) used its powers in the context of the controversial European Union regulation “to combat the distribution of terrorist online material last year”. It now emerges from the transparency report published for 2024, for which the authority is bound. Therefore, BKA has ordered the removal of terrorist online material by service providers in the hosting field in 482 cases. This is almost identical than doubled compared to 2023 when the office expelled a 249 distance system.
Fight against terrorism
The regulation came into force in 2021 and has reached from June 2022. Operators of online platforms must remove terrorist materials such as propagation or instructions to build bombs on the orders of any officials from any member state within an hour. Reservation of a judge is not provided. Terrorists are considered more difficult with the initiative to spread the Internet to spread radical ideas, recruit supporters and involve them into violence. According to the decision of the law, civil society organizations warned of “serious blow for expression and freedom of the press”. There were no fundamental mechanisms to secure measures against misuse or only application errors.
In 2022, the local Legislature declared BKA responsible for releasing its own and reviewing local hosts as a foreign distance system. 482 sent in 2024 were according to the extinguished command Current data All address service providers abroad. Of them 462 were implemented, which corresponds to the success rate of 95.9 percent. No serious violations of an hour period were found. “Two cases with a system of 20 distance in constellations”, the affected people did not follow. BKA does not give a reason for this.
Cooperation with industry is going well
Foreign offices are clearly more reserved: In eleven cases, BKA only had to investigate eleven distance with the state institute with the state’s media North Rhine-Westphalia that was sent to German service providers to other European Union countries. These were nine extinguish orders compared to the previous year. The federal network agency, which serves as a control body in Germany, credits the fact that 2024 became active in implementing regulation by other European authorities. BKA did not see the cause of complaint with foreign entries.
If the terrorist is not obliged to remove the online content, the federal network agency can open a penalty process. This was never necessary last year, such as Separate transparency report of regulatory authority can be removed. Therefore the federal network agency was forced to continue an administrative process against a German host. In this country, if millions are not followed and administrative offenses.
In both reports, it can also be read that the BKA 17,045 voluntarily voluntarily followed the hoster to eliminate the request to remove or block criminal online content. This device is considered to be the initial stage of compulsory expulsion order. The implementation rate here was 87.4 percent, while in 2023 it was 78.6 percent at 7240. If the reported material is a terrorist, the BKA examines the response after two working days and if necessary, issues an official system.
In 20 cases, the material was restored
The regulation does not oblige platforms for monitoring the entire data traffic. However, if the terrorist material has already been published on them, then you have to take special measures to protect your services from further distribution. There is no clear need to use “automated equipment”. The European Union Parliament can apply it to upload the upload filter not to make it mandatory.
The federal network agency also investigates whether measures taken are “effective and suitable”. This sees it as a success that a total of 16,771 materials from German hosting services can be removed due to the action initiated in 2024. During the same period, 141 complaints from users received their content deletion. In a total of 20 cases, the material was reinstated thanks to this test process. For approximately six million euros, Europeol developed the European Union platform to combat illegal online materials “(PERCI) and placed it in operating in July 2023. According to the regulator, this process is completely “smooth”.
(MHO)
