AfD on digital affairs

The AfD rejects a state that digitally monitors and controls its citizens. It opposes abolishing cash, introducing a "digital identity," and a personal CO2 budget.

The AfD does not want a state that watches people digitally. Cash should stay. The AfD is against a digital identity. It is also against a personal CO2 budget. That would be a fixed amount of CO2 for each person.

The platform calls for scrutiny of political decision-makers instead of surveillance of citizens. The AfD regards the idea of the "Great Reset" as an attack on freedom and civil rights. Besides abolishing cash and a digital identity, it also rejects so-called "eco tokens." The party says it will stand up for self-determination at every level and prevent comprehensive control over people's lives.

The AfD wants to finish the rollout of wired broadband across Bavaria, preferably with fiber, and to secure mobile coverage in rural areas. Equipment should come only from state-certified suppliers; companies controlled by China should not take part.

The AfD wants fast internet everywhere in Bavaria. Fiber cables should be used most of all. Cell phone service should also be good in the countryside. The equipment should come only from approved companies. Companies under the control of China's ruling party should not take part.

The wired rollout is to be completed across the whole state, preferably using fiber. For mobile service, the platform singles out rural areas, rail lines and major roads; the AfD values gap-free coverage over high bandwidth. Hardware should come from suppliers the state has certified as reliable, in order to safeguard independence and sovereignty. Companies that the party says are effectively controlled by China's Communist Party are to be excluded. The platform names an uninterrupted power supply as a precondition, which it sees as endangered by the energy transition.

The AfD wants to abolish the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO in German) and replace it with a shorter privacy law that it says would cause less red tape. At the same time, end-to-end encryption should become the legal standard, and the party rejects a central personal identifier in government registers.

The AfD wants to get rid of the GDPR. That is an EU rule that protects personal data. A new, shorter law should replace it. Messages should always be encrypted. The state should not use one ID number for each person across all offices.

According to the platform, data protection should not be an end in itself or slow economic development, but should protect citizens from misuse of their data with the mildest possible intervention. Anyone who has consented to data processing should be able to withdraw that consent effectively at any time. End-to-end encryption and privacy by design and by default are to be made the standard by law. The AfD considers a cross-sector personal identifier in the modernization of registers unconstitutional because it would allow personality profiles to be built. It also calls for much stronger IT security, including staff training, and rejects censorship in digital media.

The AfD wants Bavaria to implement the Onlinezugangsgesetz (Online Access Act) quickly and thereby further digitize government procedures. Contacting the administration in person should remain easy.

The AfD wants government offices in Bavaria to go digital faster. People should be able to do more online. But they should still be able to visit an office in person easily. Cities and towns should work together on the technology.

The Online Access Act requires the federal government, the states and municipalities to offer administrative services digitally as well. Standardized interfaces and joint development are meant to keep cities and towns from building the same solutions several times and to help reach the goals sooner. Easy, in-person contact with government offices is to be preserved. The use of open-source software should be examined and, where it makes sense, promoted.