The Austrian Constitutional Court dealt with a law on monitoring communication via messenger apps, which was challenged by the FPÖ and the Greens. The case came before the court after the law was passed by the ÖVP, SPÖ, and Neos, and the court convened a public oral hearing on it. Tagesspiegel ↗
The subject of the proceedings is legislation intended to allow security authorities to monitor communication in digital applications. According to the risks described, such an intervention could also expose unrelated private data to state security, including vacation photos. DSN Director Omar Haijawi-Pirchner stated that irrelevant chats would be deleted without delay. Die Zeit ↗
The court also had the technical aspects of the law explained by a computer science expert. He pointed out that with this type of software, what is decisive is trust in its manufacturer and in the assurance that the program actually does only what is declared. Welt ↗
A new development is the failure of the proposed constitutional amendment on the election of judges in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In the state parliament in Schwerin, a joint proposal by the SPD, the Left, and the Greens did not pass, as it failed to secure the required two-thirds majority. The CDU and AfD parliamentary groups had already announced before the vote that they would not support the proposal. Die Zeit ↗
The Austrian Constitutional Court's decision will be important both for the future fate of the law and for the limits of state intervention in private digital communication. The parallel dispute over rules for the election of judges in Germany shows that questions of judicial independence and constitutional safeguards remain politically sensitive. Deutschlandfunk ↗
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