CDU on digital affairs

The CDU wants to crack down harder on digital violence, especially against women. Psychological and digital violence should be fully covered by criminal law, and legal gaps, for example around deepfakes, should be closed.

Violence also happens online. The CDU wants to do more against it. This affects women most of all. Emotional abuse should also be a crime. Fake pictures and videos should be punishable.

Strategies against digital violence are to be developed further in a targeted way. Existing counseling services should be expanded. New forms such as online harassment, bullying on social media and manipulated content like deepfakes are to be prosecuted and legal gaps closed.

The CDU wants data protection in Berlin to be practical and innovation-friendly and rejects what it sees as excessive interpretations. Whatever EU law allows should also be possible in Berlin.

Data protection should slow down companies less. The rules should apply the same way everywhere. What the EU allows, Berlin should allow too. The CDU wants a balance between privacy and business.

The aim is a balance between protecting sensitive data and promoting economic development. The CDU welcomes the decision of the Conference of Minister-Presidents of December 4, 2025, on making data protection law more efficient. This includes centralizing the tasks of data protection officers.

The CDU considers fast internet to be in the overriding public interest and wants to speed up network expansion with uniform digital permitting. Fiber is to reach all the way into homes, and Berlin is to prepare for future standards such as 6G.

Berlin should get faster internet. Fiber cables should reach every home. Permits should be digital and faster. Berlin should also get ready for new mobile networks.

The CDU wants to use the legal status of overriding public interest to simplify expansion. It relies on fair competition and uniform, digital permitting procedures. The CDU supports similar federal initiatives, and Berlin is to be prepared now for mobile standards like 6G.

The CDU wants to bundle every step of founding a company on one central digital platform. Grant applications are to be handled digitally, pre-screened automatically and decided within 14 days.

Founders should do everything in one place. It should all work online. Requests for funding should be checked quickly. There should be an answer after 14 days.

The planned one-stop shop is to cover business registration, tax questions and social insurance. Processing is to be fast and fully digital. Express building permits are planned for smaller renovations of start-up and creative spaces.

The CDU wants to continue digitizing Berlin's administration, both for citizens and internally. Beyond the more than 450 digital services, internal processes are to go digital too, and the party commits to Berlin's open-source strategy.

Many public services in Berlin are already online. The CDU wants to make even more digital. Work inside the offices should also go digital. Berlin should use open software for this. This is called open source.

According to the program, more than 450 administrative services are already available online, such as registering an address, applying for parental allowance and registering a car. Internal processes are to run fully digitally in the future. The CDU commits to implementing Berlin's open-source strategy. AI tools such as the BärGPT assistant are meant to relieve staff of routine tasks.