The WIFI Desert that is Germany

wolfbln · 14-03-2015, 02:41

Finally German government has reacted and changes the law on WIFIs, at least a bit.

From now on, commercial providers of WIFI-hotspots will be except from liability claims in the future. They need to encrypt their WIFI with WPA2 or similar. The anonymous user has to tick a box where he declares not to do anything illegal. That's all.

So restaurants, airports, bars, hotels and so on will get a safe legal base and offer more WiFis in the future.

Unfortunately, private owners of WIFIs are still not allowed to open their hotspots. They need to know everyone who they accept on their network by name. Here the liability is maintained which led to many dissuasions in the past.

So we are moving slowly.....even if the whole legislation doesn't make no sense at all.

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wolfbln (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 206 Join Date: 14 Jul 2014 Country:	14-03-2015, 02:41 Finally German government has reacted and changes the law on WIFIs, at least a bit. From now on, commercial providers of WIFI-hotspots will be except from liability claims in the future. They need to encrypt their WIFI with WPA2 or similar. The anonymous user has to tick a box where he declares not to do anything illegal. That's all. So restaurants, airports, bars, hotels and so on will get a safe legal base and offer more WiFis in the future. Unfortunately, private owners of WIFIs are still not allowed to open their hotspots. They need to know everyone who they accept on their network by name. Here the liability is maintained which led to many dissuasions in the past. So we are moving slowly.....even if the whole legislation doesn't make no sense at all.