New prevention tasks

In my view, the challenges can essentially be reduced to four points. The first is the aforementioned removal or irrelevance of national borders. This, of course, erodes the traditional, handed-down procedures of law enforcement and security authorities. The necessary international cooperation in the fight against IT-supported crime in the broadest sense is still in its infancy today, even in 2019. Secondly, the welcome possibility of being able to act largely anonymously on the Internet has, of course, the downside of the failure of conventional investigation methods. The same applies, thirdly, to the equally welcome possibility of encryption, especially of communications. However, this is of course detrimental to security, to crime prevention and to law enforcement, because end-to-end encryption in a messenger system, for example, can no longer be monitored by law enforcement authorities using conventional tools. Fourthly, all these problems affect not only cybercrime in the narrower sense, but also and especially the classic forms of criminal activity. From fraud to trafficking of drugs, weapons and people.

• § 13 Abs. 6 TMG – Grundsätzliche Möglichkeit der anonymen Nutzung von Internetdiensten
• Bundesverfassungsgerichtsentscheidung zur Online-Durchsuchung / Recht auf Gewährleistung der Integrität und Vertraulichkeit informationstechnischer Systeme
• Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung
• Internationale Zusammenarbeit der Polizei (Überblick des Status Quo)
• Beitrag digitalcourage e.V. zu Verschlüsselungsverboten