This case once again raises a spotlight on the privacy of the Berlin police. A police officer sent in December 2017, threatening letters to alleged members of the extreme left-wing scene from the environment of the Riga street. The rbb reported. A justice spokeswoman confirmed that due to the breach of the Berlin data protection law a criminal in command of a fine in the amount of 3500 Euro was adopted. The man is supposed to have taken, therefore, the data for his threatening letters from the police system. Whether the man is a civil servant, could not confirm the judicial spokeswoman. The rbb, which relies on two with the charge of the case lawyers, is said to have confessed to the officials in the deeds. The police couldn’t comment on the request to the case.
The threatening letters had become known at the end of December 2017. These were landed at the meeting points of the extreme left-wing scene, and in the case of private individuals, listed were 42 named people living at the same address and some photos to be incurred in the identification, treatment by the police. From the beginning, the existence of the suspicion that the data for the threatening letters come from the police. As a sender, a nod to the “center for political beauty was given a “center for political correctness”–”.
In the letters, it said: “your faces, the names, addresses, vehicles, parents, siblings are very long.” The author had threatened to to the data, residential addresses and photos of, among other things, the extreme Right forward, “the Identity of the” Autonomous nationalists “or the cops or whomever”.
threatening letters were not only on the extreme left of the scene
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The threatening letters had been seen as a response to the actions of the left-hand scenes. The had published 54 portrait photos of police officers that were involved in the eviction of a house – a meeting point for the extreme left – wing scene in the Rigaer Strasse 94. However, the police officers sent threatening letter ended up to the part with persons who do not belong according to a report by the time of the extreme left-wing scene. Among the recipients is a member of the SPD, an employee of a Bundestag Deputy and a man were had, the years of time with a resident of the occupied house, a relationship.
The Berlin police couldn’t comment on Friday on the case. Appropriate information related to the case are not available yet, said a spokeswoman. A criminal command should be available, will certainly be proceeded in a disciplinary action against the officials. According to the justice spokesperson of the civil servants does not apply, in spite of the Penalty order as a record. A criminal record, he would only be in the case of a fine of 90 daily rates. In view of the imposed fine and the on the net content of the ad rates it is likely to be an officer in the middle of the service. Of 2014 to the first half of 2018 54 disciplinary proceedings against Berlin police officers for violations of the privacy act have been initiated.
the abuse of the data system Poliks
this year became known that the Berlin police has massive problems in data protection. It comes to security gaps in the data system, Poliks. In the System, the 16,000 police officers have access to, are stored the data of the citizens of Berlin. In addition, the suspicion that violations of officials to be sanctioned only reluctantly or not at all. In several cases police officers have used illegal data from Poliks, for private or criminal purposes – such as the head of a car thief gang.
In another case, an official had supplied a gang of drug dealers with information and raids warned. Other officials have requested data on a colleague to find out whether she has separated from her husband. And an officer has been spying on their neighbors. In addition, it should have at Poliks a security issue with the password protection can be cracked. Deletion should not be adhered to deadlines due to staff shortages, breaches in the case of samples insufficient detected.
the Berlin data protection Commissioner Maja Smoltczyk alone in 2017 has made a total of 17 Criminal charges. According to the police, in 2017, in two cases, are fines in the amount of € 6,000 against the officials, have been imposed. In most cases, however, it doesn’t come From Spähattacken Affected or the data protection officer may ask a criminal complaint, but both would have to learn from the violation. That happens, but apparently only rarely. It is the allegation that the internal investigators of the office of criminal investigation, inform the person Concerned.
Smoltczyk was 2017, even urged, to remind the General Prosecutor’s office, to a duty at least to inform the spied-on people. The privacy Commissioner criticized repeatedly that she has to learn from the press of data breaches to the police. The police would have to mandated by law, the privacy of inform, warned Smoltszyk last.
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Alexander Fröhlich
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