Block chat control and AI scans of private data
The AfD rejects the EU's planned scanning of private messenger communications. The Berlin Senate is to commit to protecting privacy, and state agencies would be barred from technically assisting in such monitoring. The program warns of mass surveillance and false suspicions.
The EU wants private chat messages to be searched automatically. This is called chat control. The AfD is against it. Berlin's public offices should not be allowed to help with it. A new rule should ban such scans on private devices.
According to the program, even end-to-end encrypted chats would be scanned with AI, and harmless family photos could be wrongly flagged as illegal. The AfD also wants to prevent backdoors in messengers from later being used to search for politically inconvenient content. A state data protection regulation would prohibit AI scanning on private devices and impose sanctions for violations. In addition, the AfD wants to digitize public administration and exempt small businesses from the e-invoicing requirement.
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„Die AfD steht für den uneingeschränkten Schutz der Privatsphäre der Bürger und lehnt verdachtsfreie Massenscans entschieden ab.“Translation: The AfD stands for the unrestricted protection of citizens' privacy and firmly rejects mass scans without suspicion.
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- Civil liberties and securityleaning civil liberties first
The existing protection of private communication is defended against a specific surveillance proposal under discussion and backed by a state-level ban.
- Europeleaning less EU
An EU initiative is rejected, and state agencies are to refuse to take part in it.