Fight against online crime: The interior ministers of the federal states and the federal government agree. In the future, it should be possible to assign the computer’s IP address to the identity of the sender of certain messages.
In the future, in the fight against crime on the Internet, it should be possible for investigators to allocate the identities of users via the IP addresses of the computers.
The interior ministers of the federal states and the federal government agreed on this, said the chairman of the conference of interior ministers, Bavaria’s department head Joachim Herrmann (CSU), in Würzburg.
“We have to ensure that the providers are disclosed which identities are hidden behind a corresponding IP address,” said Herrmann, adding: “We agree on that.” Above all, Herrmann hopes to achieve greater success in the fight against child pornography on the Internet. It becomes clear that more and more cases become known the more closely the investigators look.
It must be possible for people to be anonymous on the Internet. But you have to come to a concept that at least the provider knows the real names and then also publishes them on a judicial decision.
In addition, it must be ensured that, for example, child pornographic representations can be deleted on the Internet as soon as the data for the investigations has been secured. Herrmann announced that there should also be a mutual decision by the interior ministers on this.
