Germany: The CDU/CSU parliamentary group wants to save all IP addresses

The CDU/CSU parliamentary group is making a new attempt to save the IP addresses of all online users for a limited period of time in order to better combat sexual violence against children and its spread on the Internet.

Berlin - The Union politicians want to submit an application to the Bundestag this week, reports the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (Tuesday edition). "The Internet has made it much easier to contact minors and spread child pornography. The state must react to this," said the deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary group, Andrea Lindholz (CSU).

With a limited storage of IP addresses by the providers, the investigators would "get to the bottom of many more criminals," says Lindholz. The legal policy spokesman Günter Krings (CDU) said: "The procrastination and hesitation of this federal government must finally come to an end." The federal government must "listen to experienced investigators and enable what is often the only investigative approach: the storage of IP addresses."

The application is to be discussed and decided on Tuesday in the parliamentary group meeting. It says literally: "Without a legally secure obligation to store the IP addresses, the investigations often come to nothing: In the last five years, 19,150 indications of child sexual abuse, which the German authorities alone from US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) could not be clarified because the IP address was no longer available from the providers. The Bundestag should therefore ask the Federal Government to take action.

The debate has flared up again and again for decades. In 2010, the Federal Constitutional Court overruled a first variant of data retention. A new law has been in force since 2015, but is not fully implemented due to, among other things, ongoing legal proceedings up to the highest EU level.

Source: Der Newsticker

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