The newspaper BILD of 18.02.2020 tried to answer this question in an article. To this end, it asked our partner and IT rights expert Prof. Dr. Christian Czychowski, among others, to provide an assessment of the Network Enforcement Act that is about to be reformed.
Czychowski doubts the effectiveness of the new draft regulation on the issuing of passwords, which is linked to clear conditions. Because: In practice, it only works properly if the passwords are not encrypted, the specialist lawyer told BILD. This is the case for a maximum of two percent of passwords. His critical conclusion: “The new version of the password regulation is ultimately a showcase policy”. “Anonymity on the Internet makes it easy to commit legal violations,” says IT lawyer Christian Czychowski. He is convinced that crime on the Internet will not be brought under control without data storage. However, a middle way has not yet been found.
