News item | 04-07-2025 | 15:15
The information position of mayors and police is improved to prevent (imminent) serious disruptions of public order. The government program states that the powers of the police to collect information about possible large -scale public order disturbances is being expanded. With the Bill on the Data Protection of Public Order Act, Minister Van Weel of Justice and Security takes care of the expansion of these powers. Due to the extra powers, the police are better able to maintain public order. For example, by preventing or preventing people from abusing a demonstration to riot.
Minister Van Weel: “Police officers regularly have to deal with serious disruptions of public order. These disturbances have increasingly have their roots in the online domain or are driven or strengthened from there. It is therefore important that online information may be used by the mayor and the police to maintain public order. Certainly in the event of serious disruptions of public order, there is often the extra material of the material of the material of materials and the material is often possible with the extra material of the material of the material and the extra material of the material and the extra material of the Material and Safety of the Material and Safety Order. police adequate measures to prevent, prevent or terminate a serious disruption. ”
In order to be able to effectively maintain public order, it is necessary that the police and the mayor can collect more data from publicly accessible sources, than is now possible within the current legal framework. This information often consists of personal data or data that is inextricably linked to personal data. A legal basis is therefore required to be able to collect the necessary information about a serious disruption of public order online. The bill arranges this by giving the mayor to give two additional powers, with which he can order the police to collect relevant information about a serious disruption of public order after an authorization from the examining magistrate. This concerns personal data from publicly accessible sources, the public part of the internet. It is also possible to follow people online through publicly accessible sources, which is suspected of having an important role in a serious disruption of public order.
In order to protect the privacy and, where appropriate, other fundamental rights, two important guarantees have been included in the bill. The independent test by the examining magistrate for the use of the proposed powers and a sharper regime for the processing of the personal data.