As “amazingly specific” judges the German news magazine Die Zeit the coalition plan for a ‘right to encryption’.
Consequently, the coalition agreement was met with great approval, especially among net activists. The website Netzpolitik.org sees “many good and exciting promises,” but it is now a matter of implementation. And members of the Chaos Computer Club point out the great similarities between the new coalition paper and a formulation aid from the hacker association.
Taken together, the coaliation agreement signals a change in politics in Berlin. The former government led by the conversatives CDU/CSU repeatedly pushed for more surveillance, but fortunately, the new one plans to take a different road.