AfD on digital affairs

The AfD wants fast internet and gap-free mobile coverage across all of Brandenburg. The platform justifies this with the competitiveness of businesses and the needs of people in rural areas.

The AfD wants fast internet everywhere in Brandenburg. Cell phone coverage should work everywhere too. This should help businesses. It should also help people in the countryside.

The platform sets a goal of at least 100 Mbit/s for the entire state. Dead zones are to be closed and the 5G mobile standard made available statewide. In the AfD's view, Brandenburg ranks near the bottom in Germany on digitalization, which it says drives people to move to the area around Berlin. The party also says an overall plan for digitalizing business, tourism, health care and education is missing.

The AfD demands that the state do more to secure IT systems and data networks. The aim is to fend off industrial espionage and cyberattacks.

The AfD wants to better protect computer networks in the state. Nobody should be able to steal data. Other countries should not be able to spy on the data either.

The AfD wants Brandenburg's digital infrastructure to become internationally competitive. The party says this includes protection against espionage targeting businesses and against attacks from the internet. It wants to ensure that foreign states cannot spy on data from Brandenburg.

The AfD wants to revise data protection law and roll back rules it considers overregulation. In its view, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation mainly burdens small businesses, clubs and private individuals rather than big internet companies.

The AfD wants to change the rules on data protection. It thinks the EU rules are too strict. Small businesses and clubs suffer from them. Private data should still stay protected.

The platform affirms that each person should decide on the sharing, storage, use and deletion of their personal data. It says, however, that the GDPR went too far and hits small and mid-sized businesses, clubs, bloggers and hobby photographers. According to the platform, they cannot afford consultants and lack legal certainty, while cease-and-desist letters are on the rise. The protection of private data is to remain in place.

The AfD wants to abolish the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act), which requires platforms to delete unlawful content. In the party's view, it restricts freedom of expression. Apart from serious crimes, the internet should not be subject to any state censorship.

There is a law for social networks. It is called the Network Enforcement Act. The AfD wants to get rid of this law. It says the law harms free speech. The state should not censor anything online.

The platform points out that the Bundestag's research service rated the law as violating European and constitutional law. The AfD wants to allow state intervention online only for prosecuting serious crimes. In all rules for the digital society, freedom of expression, control over one's own data, the privacy of telecommunications and the inviolability of the home should remain untouched as far as possible. The party demands that public broadcasters report independently of governments, parties or lobby groups and clearly separate information from opinion.

The AfD wants to give the Ministry for Infrastructure and State Planning responsibility for digitalization. At the same time, public administration is to go fully digital so that it becomes more efficient and closer to citizens.

One ministry should take care of digitalization. It should also be allowed to give other ministries instructions on this. Government offices should work fully digitally. Citizens should be able to handle important paperwork from home.

All digital administrative projects are to come together in this ministry. It would set guidelines and be allowed to issue instructions to other ministries. The AfD accuses the parties that have governed so far of promising broadband expansion for years without delivering. The goal is for citizens to handle the most important dealings with authorities paperlessly from home, while data protection is maintained.