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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - From the point of view of the state data protection officer in connection with the "NSU 2.0" threatening letters, the Hessian police informed belatedly about the violation of the protection of personal data. The press office of the Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI) of the German Press Agency reported this to the state police headquarters. Whether the matter can be pursued further depends on whether the people in question can be identified and whether there is a so-called “employee excess”, it said. This would be the case if the data had been used for non-official purposes. "The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information will continue to monitor this."

At the beginning of the week, a 53-year-old alleged author of the threatening letters was arrested in Berlin. According to the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office, the man is under urgent suspicion of "having sent a series of threatening letters with inciting, insulting and threatening content nationwide under the synonym" NSU 2.0 "since August 2018. The recipients were predominantly public figures, especially from the media world and politics, including members of the Hessian state parliament and the Bundestag.

The case was also tricky because the perpetrator or perpetrators were apparently able to take advantage of inside knowledge of the police.

According to dpa information, the arrested person is said to have also allegedly obtained information about the persons addressed from authorities such as the residents' registration office through telephone inquiries.

It also says in the room that he could have obtained illegally distributed data from those concerned via the Darknet.

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With regard to inquiries from municipalities, the state data protection officer "has not yet known any structural problems," said the HBDI.

“Basically, one can say that technical measures alone are not sufficient in most cases to protect personal data.

The "human factor" remains. »

Comprehensive awareness-raising is required, for example, to prevent “someone authorized to use them to pass on information to an unauthorized person”.

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