She wants to illegally misuse the contact details of the Luca app to hunt criminals! In Brandenburg’s state parliament there was trouble on Thursday about Minister of Justice Susanne Hoffmann (62, CDU).
But she remained stubborn. Hoffmann wants to tap the personal data of all restaurant guests and shop customers “in order to prosecute serious crimes”. Although the Infection Protection Act only allows use to track corona outbreaks.
Brandenburg’s Free Voters and the Left wanted to prevent that. “It’s about the reliability of the rule of law, which remains credible and does not become encroaching,” said Free Voters boss Péter Vida (38). “They are pouring oil on the fire of the social crisis of confidence,” says Marlen Block (41, Left), “that only benefits democracy deniers and endangers meaningful contact tracing in the pandemic!”
Outrageous: Hoffmann stated on Tuesday that there were no instructions to the police and prosecutors to use Luca in crimes. Yes, since 2020, the RBB revealed in the evening. “Why didn’t you inform us about this?!”, Marie Schäffer (31, Greens) accused her.
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“I couldn’t imagine the emotions that triggered,” said the minister. But it is “not unusual to use data from all sources to solve crimes”. Hoffmann was not impressed that the Federal Ministry of Justice declared this to be illegal in the case of Luca.
SPD, CDU and Greens voted against a ban on Luca app abuse. Also critic Schäffer. She says: “That is the task of federal politics.”