Despite the coalition break
Faeser believes in majority for blocked “security package”
What else will the Bundestag decide before a new election? The Federal Minister of the Interior is optimistic about the comparison of biometric data.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is confident that there will still be majorities in the Bundestag for some of the legislative proposals she considers important before new elections. This includes, for example, the part of the “security package” that requires approval with the automated data comparison for investigators, says Faeser on the sidelines of a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Joint Federal and State Counter-Terrorism Center (GTAZ) in Berlin.
The Bundestag approved the “security package” approved by the SPD, Greens and FDP after the knife attack in Solingen in October. However, the Federal Council then stopped the part that concerns plans for security authorities to compare photos and other biometric data on the Internet.
According to the draft law, the search for faces and voices using an automated application should only be permitted if the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) or his representative has this approved by a court. If there was imminent danger, the BKA boss or one of the three deputies themselves would have had to make the order for a maximum of three days. Union politicians spoke out in favor of more extensive powers for the security authorities and also renewed their call for a new, legally harmless form of obligation to store IP addresses.
Stübgen: Less data protection for extremists
“We need less data protection for extremists of all stripes in order to protect the well-being of all citizens,” says Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU), who is currently chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers. He also did not agree to the proposed law on biometric data “because I do not think it is sufficient.” The federal government should now call the mediation committee. The bill could then be improved so that it would find a majority in the Bundestag even under the current conditions.
There are around 500 meetings a year in the Terrorism Defense Center, which deal, among other things, with current dangerous situations, undercover investigations and the deportation of so-called threat actors. “In the last 20 years, our security authorities have been able to prevent 24 Islamist terrorist attacks,” says Faeser. The GTAZ often played an important role in this.
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Source: Stern
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