The digital civil rights movement Bits of Freedom (BoF) says that in the Netherlands the secret services keep the data of millions of citizens if they are not authorized. The agency has filed a formal complaint with the Intelligence and Security Services Oversight Commission (CTIVD) in the hope that the agencies will stop collecting too much data.
BoF asked if the editors wanted to form an opinion. The question concerns the so-called relevance assessment. AIVD and MIVD are allowed to collect a lot of data from citizens, but they must have a good reason for storing data. If no such reason exists, the data should be deleted as soon as possible. According to Bits of Freedom, this removal is taking too long.
The organization says the Secret Service treats the data as complete data sets rather than individual data. As a result, the BoF complains that too much citizen data is stored in these clusters.
The control service CTIVD previously called the method a cheat and found it illegal. But the interior and defense ministers ignored this advice, the BoF said.
The organization expects a decision in the coming weeks. Unlike the control department, the complaints handling department of the CTIVD has binding powers and, depending on the organisation, can demand the destruction of irrelevant data.
Source: NU
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