Government agrees to monitoring messenger services-Diepresse.com
Neos boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger, whose party had seen the surveillance critically, speaks of a constitutional solution.
The government agreed on the monitoring of Messenger services to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday if there is a specific danger. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) will still present the details today.
Until the end, the NEOs have seen the monitoring of Messenger services. Now they have agreed. As Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger (NEOS) admitted to the press foyer, one had « a variety of concerns ». Now « an enormous step » and a constitutional solution has succeeded. The necessary subsequent sharpening that it needed from a neos perspective. Legal protection has been strengthened, and only very targeted surveillance is possible and there will be strong parliamentary control. In the event of violations, there are far -reaching consequences.
Finally, the NEOs had asked that judicial control over the approval for the use, the selected software had to be « intensively checked » and their possibilities must be limited to reading messenger data without damage to other systems, and that there should be « strictest consequences » in the event of an abusive surveillance.
Greens: Neos fell over
Criticism of the decision -making decision already came from the Greens on Tuesday: « In addition to the SPÖ, the NEOs have now fallen over, » said digitization spokesman Süleyman Zorba in a broadcast. Despite « cosmetic corrections », the basic problem remains, he said. « The use of state spy software – so -called Bundestrojan – is and remains a dangerous breathing fracture. The potential for abuse is enormous, the technical implementation is unsure and the constitutional concerns are far from clearing, » said Zorba. (APA/JN)
