Die ÖVP had after the foiled attack on the Taylor Swift concerts in the Ernst Happel Stadium again called for the current legal situation to be changed and, according to his own statements, has been appealing to the Green Coalition partnersHowever, the latter rejects the previous ÖVP draft for monitoring messenger services as unconstitutional Data protection advocates are also skeptical, as the state is working with security gaps in online services and thus becoming a “hacker” itself.
Permanent dependence on foreign intelligence services
The criminal law expert Ingeborg Zerbes explained in the HONEY 2that the monitoring of encrypted messages from Constitutional Court was not excluded in principle. This would at least be legally possible if it was a question of preventing serious acts of violence, for example planned Terrorist attacksgo.
It would be possible to limit the exploitation of a security loophole by the state. That would be a question of legal regulation. It would be a matter of only evaluating the relevant messages, which would apply to “very serious cases” and would therefore not result in mountains of data that state security would have to evaluate.
According to the expert, one must remember that the current legal situation is a permanent dependence on foreign intelligence services It is a fundamental problem that sensitive data could fall into the wrong hands. Egisto There It has become clear that there is always a need for further tightening. However, according to Zerbes, the international isolation of state security after the BVT affair has eased again.
“Ban on Islamism”
Ingeborg Zerbes cannot understand the demand of the SPNÖ state party leader, Landesrat Sven Hergovich, who on Friday “Ban on Islamism” demanded. There are enough criminal offenses against the preparation of serious acts of violence, said Zerbes in the HONEY 2 on the proposal. “I see no need at all to create further criminal offenses,” said the expert.
Hergovich said that “new answers to new threats” were needed, as stated in a press release. “It is not enough to prosecute the approval of terrorism and calls for it. Anyone who questions democracy, women’s rights or the rights of non-believers or those of different faiths must face criminal consequences.”
Radicalization on the Internet
“The ban law is intended to pursue every National Socialist threat early and with the utmost severity. Especially in areas where it would otherwise be difficult for the authorities to act so decisively,” said Hergovich. The threat posed by Islamist terror now makes action necessary here too: “Terrorists like those who planned an attack on the Taylor Swift concert must be pursued early and with the utmost severity,” demanded the Social Democrat.
“We therefore need a ban that takes effect when young people radicalise themselves on the Internet,” said the state party chairman. What is needed is “a consistent ban on Islamist propaganda and its dissemination, the questioning of Democracy and women’s rights and all calls for terrorism, even on the smallest scale, must be prosecuted.” The aim is to have a “deterrent effect” through a penalty of several years in prison, said the state party. New legal regulations should also force platforms to “finally delete and ban this content with the necessary consequence,” said the SPÖ politician.
(kurier.at, agencies, jD)
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09.08.2024, 23:05
