(NL Times) The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has ordered the minister of social affairs and employment to delete all the illegally gathered personal data that the ministry has of members of Muslim communities. The data was obtained via secret investigations, which the mosques and people were not aware of.
People will have two more months to see what info the government had gathered on them between 2016 and 2019. The ministry conducted 12 investigations during that time, in which 31 people were investigated specifically, the AP discovered. The ministry wanted to use this to map out Salafism and radicalization.
The AP began an investigation into the ministry’s actions on September 23, 2023. The Data Protection Authority looked into 3,000 documents, including reports, transcripts, e-mails, and notes.
