Federal and state justice ministers passed 34 resolutions at their 95th meeting in Berlin on Thursday. One condition is that car manufacturers must provide law enforcement officials with duplicate keys or access codes for suspects’ vehicles upon request. “It requires a legal obligation for third parties to cooperate in unlocking the vehicle,” the paper says. It aims to help investigators set up surveillance techniques for measures as per sections 100C, 100F and 100H of the Code of Criminal Procedure (STPO). This includes large-scale eavesdropping outside homes, as well as the use of image recording and “other technical means intended for observation purposes”. As a rule, bedbugs are used for this.
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The Federal Ministry of Justice must now address this issue and make a corresponding legislative proposal. The Justice Ministers of the federal states emphasize that the intervention measures regulated in the STPO “must be available to the police even in substantially changed factual and technical circumstances”. It must not “fail due to factual circumstances”. The decision is based on the initiative of Baden-Württemberg Justice Minister Marianne Gentsch (CDU). She justifies this by saying that manufacturers’ “existing standards for the prevention of technical theft” are becoming “increasingly an insurmountable barrier” to the mandatory opening of vehicles by investigators. One third of all cars are already “equipped with alarm or warning functions” – and this trend is increasing. Therefore participation of manufacturers is necessary.
Fear of “data flood” for BKA
Based on a submission from Lower Saxony, the convention requires large platform operators such as Facebook and Justice Minister of Lower Saxony Catherine Wahlmann (SPD) to stress “its urgent need to successfully combat hatred and agitation on the Internet.” Is.” Civil rights activists have long feared that the reporting requirement would result in a “flood of data” for the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and risk a “massive encroachment on freedom”, even at the expense of innocent people. . The Justice Minister considers the possibility of sanctions for violations of the requirement as important.
The conference supported another proposal from Lower Saxony on asset confiscation for high-profile crimes in the view of social media operators: if criminals “post their crimes online or even publicly boast about them If they stream them live, that’s the lowest ethical level,” he told Elector Out. “It’s even worse if they make money through social networks as well. There is an urgent need for legislative action here: the state must be able to collect such illicit income.”
The police should be allowed to enter the state trojan
The Justice Minister also wants to tighten the “security package”, which has been largely blocked by countries with CDU/CSU government participation. To this end, they have accepted an application from Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg to improve checking options for encrypted messenger services like WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal. In order to install state trojans for TKÜ related sources on cell phones, computers, etc., the Convention once again considers it necessary to “examine whether it is expedient to create a legal right of access to the home of the accused”. In other words: the police should be allowed inside. This is necessary because of the “technical effort” of installing monitoring software. Former Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) recently strongly rejected such an initiative by Interior Minister Nancy Feser (SPD). According to the convention, radio cell queries should also be expanded and the use of cross-process automated research and analysis platforms should be possible.
Overview of the decisions of the Autumn Conference of Justice Ministers,
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