Even with the smallest trivialities, shoot with the largest possible ammunition and extinguish a fire with dynamite: that has been the political strategy until now when it comes to offenses and violations on the Internet. Millions of Germans were put under general suspicion of data retention so that a small group of lawyers could warn of petty copyright violations under civil law. In the meantime, German and European courts have overturned the permanent storage of the data of all Internet users without cause. Now politicians have come up with the idea that a slim stiletto can be more appropriate than a heavy sword. In the Ampel coalition agreement, there is the remarkable sentence that in future perpetrators will be identified on the Internet in a “fundamental rights-friendly” way using the “login trap”.
What is meant is that, for example, after hatred or insults have spread in the social networks, a new way is taken to identify perpetrators. After initial suspicion, the police or the public prosecutor's office have the respective service, for example Facebook, set the login trap. If the alleged perpetrator books himself on the platform under his pseudonym, his IP address is recorded in real time. With this, the telecommunications provider can hand over the master data of the person concerned for the indictment. A search for a single person is therefore only carried out in a data-saving manner in justified cases, and an officer decides on setting the trap. Of course there are technical gaps, but at first the idea is so convincingthat one - presumably the FDP - can only congratulate on this advance.