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Dresden (dpa / sn) - The collection and temporary storage of data about AfD members by the Saxon constitutional protection was in the opinion of the Parliamentary Control Commission (PKK) legal.
However, the data should have been deleted later.
That is the conclusion of the final report submitted on Tuesday by the PKK, which controls the activities of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
"After the end of the one-year period, the illegality of the continued storage of the data became increasingly clear with each additional month," said the PKK.
The classification of the AfD's “wing” as an extremist endeavor by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) in March 2020 would have given the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) the occasion and opportunity to “legitimately justify the continued storage of the data”, it said.
However, this was omitted and the technical supervisory authorities had not requested it aggressively enough.
A press release on police investigations against an AfD member of the Bundestag to the BfV in autumn 2018 was also classified as illegal.
According to the PKK, the deletion of the data can now be implemented, provided it does not concern the post-processing of individual notes.
The commission stated that the “lack of document depth” for the storage of data on MPs by the LfV had “revealed deficits in analytical ability in the area of right-wing extremism”.
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Saxony's data protection officer Andreas Schurig had previously described the data collection as “largely legal”.
The LfV's approach was "basically in line with the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court on the observation of MPs," he said.
According to its own admission, the LfV had only collected and evaluated publicly accessible data.
Intelligence was not used.
Declaration by the Parliamentary Control Commission of September 7th
Overview of members of the Parliamentary Control Commission