Abstract
The internet stays a high potential infrastructure of open interaction, hence, governmental desires in monitoring the internet are growing. A demonstrative example might be the attempts to make any technology based communication ‘traceable’ with the help of a European scheme of data retention (EU direction 2006/24/EC) and its national ratifications. Regarding this, two theses come up: First, governments try to achieve their logic of ‘real life’ internal security also within the internet regime. Second, the internet changed the society in so far as it opened space for new relevant communities and actors – lobbying more and more on institutionalised paths. This will be shown by analysing the processes in the UK and Germany. A focus will lie on each national implementation of the EU’s data retention directive. Societal and especially political differences will find some notion as well, as they build the framework of any political decision making process.
Highlights
Internal Security in the Cyber1Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) show similarities in their approaches to internal security
This will be done in a comparative way; by analysing institutional and actor settings in the UK and Germany, differences in the handling of data retention can be elucidated
It is difficult to define a broader policy field where data retention fits into. In both countries we find an executive superiority in the decision making and implementation of data retention
Summary
Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) show similarities in their approaches to internal security. Using the regulation of data retention as a case study, we will show how traditional approaches to internal security have been applied to the Internet with mixed results This will be done in a comparative way; by analysing institutional and actor settings in the UK and Germany, differences in the handling of data retention can be elucidated. The threats of terrorism and organised crime, and questions of policing the Internet or personal data protection have already found EU responses This is a logical consequence of the relative smallness of European states, making any (security-oriented) Internet regulation being regarded as obsolete if it is not valid for the entire European Union. We will continue with a description of the policy field of internal security – as this is needed to understand the dynamics of the arguments.
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