Overview
- At the CSU Landtag caucus’s winter retreat in Kloster Banz, leaders tabled a resolution calling for mandatory six-month retention of IP-address traffic data.
- BKA president Holger Münch said IP retention is essential for attribution, calling three months the minimum and six months preferable.
- The CSU also seeks legally bounded authority to evaluate end-to-end encrypted messenger content in grave cases such as terrorism, organized crime, or child sexual abuse.
- Münch pressed for stronger cross-state and international data use and urged platforms to keep last login IPs to aid investigations.
- The proposal goes beyond the federal government’s draft that would cap retention at three months, and no legislative change has been enacted.