AfD data leak: authorities admit to errors in handling voter data
Following Handelsblatt research into the AfD data leak, an authority has acknowledged a data protection violation. Other municipalities are reviewing their practice of sending thousands of voter data.
Authorities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have acknowledged errors in sharing personal data with the AfD, after thousands of data records were leaked. The Stralendorf office confirmed it had sent complete birth dates, along with names and addresses, to the AfD via email, which was a data protection violation. At least eight registration authorities in the state had sent around 5480 data records with personal information of young voters to the AfD before the September state election.
The data was later found in a large data leak of the federal party, which published over 420,000 emails in mid-October.
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