Abstract
There’s a place for us? The Digital Agenda Committee and internet policy in the German Bundestag
Highlights
Almost a decade ago, internet policy entrepreneurs declared the “birth of internet policy” (“big bang der Netzpolitik”) in Germany (Spielkamp and Wragge, 2012)
The DAC was established as a permanent committee, which is still present in the running legislative session
The analysis revealed many legal and security claims as expected, and a small number of more technical arguments similar to those made by internet policy entrepreneurs outside of parliament like the Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung and especially Kurz and Rieger (2009) 7.For example, the arguments against data retention that all data can be hacked and abused or that the principle of data minimisation should apply were coded as internet policy claims. 8
Summary
Internet policy entrepreneurs declared the “birth of internet policy” (“big bang der Netzpolitik”) in Germany (Spielkamp and Wragge, 2012) They considered several events – for example, the electoral success of the Pirate Party at the state level in Berlin and the massive mobilisation against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – as indications that the transformative power of the internet on society had gained an important and permanent spot on the political agenda. The Bundestag (German federal parliament) established a commission of inquiry (a so-called Enquete Commission) on Internet and Digital Society in 2010 This Enquete Commission discussed internet policy via a collection of issues, such as copyright, data protection, open access, freedom of the internet, and net neutrality. These sections analyse the DAC (4) and examine data retention as a case of internet-related law-making (5).
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