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German Interior Minister Resolve Monitoring of WhatsApp and Co.


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The interior ministers of the Federal Government and the Länder have agreed on the monitoring of messenger services such as WhatsApp. "It can not be that there are actually law-free areas for the prosecution of crimes," said Thomas de Maizière (CDU), Minister of the Interior, on the conclusion of the Ministerial Conference on the Interior in Dresden.

The security authorities had to be legally and technically in a position to be able, for instance, to attack terrorist attacks as well as messages on messenger services, as is already possible with telephone and SMS. According to him, instruments such as on-line search and source telecommunication monitoring (TKÜ) could be used.

Interior ministers are planning a new nationwide model police network

With the source TKÜ, the authorities can use a software to read the ongoing communication of a suspect on a device before it is encrypted. According to the Minister, the two instruments are to be regulated in the coming session weeks in the criminal code.

The federal states, on the other hand, may have to live with less competences after the conference. With a new model police network, there will be more uniform security standards throughout Germany. "We do not need a patchwork carpet for internal security," de Maizière said. In the future, a federal state would need good reasons if it wanted to deviate from the common regulations.

 

The German Minister of the Interior also announced a new deal with Islamic threats. "We have taken the decision to put the risk and threat assessment on a new footing." There is a new analysis model at the Federal Criminal Police Office in order to better classify these in the future. In the Joint Counter-Terrorism Center measures should then be discussed and implemented jointly and bindingly in the countries.

Among the other items to be adopted is the rule that young asylum seekers are allowed to take fingerprints for identity verification. The six-to-14-year-old asylum seekers must also be registered in the future, said the Saxon Interior Minister Markus Ulbig (CDU). On the other hand, according to Ulbig, the interior ministerial conference could not agree on a nationwide introduction of the veil investigation.

The Left, however, accused the Ministers of the Interior of "unnecessary acts of law". "A police policeman will not be hired by a police policeman," said Parteichef Bernd Riexinger. He also criticized the fact that gathering data from time to time does not create any security. If you want to take fingerprints from children, be abandoned by all good spirits.

 

Google translation from http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/whatsapp-und-co-innenminister-beschliessen-ueberwachung-von-messengern-a-1152115.html

 

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