CCC demands emergency brake for the surveillance catalog in the coalition agreement

The coalition agreement that the black-black-red government wants to conclude is so full of surveillance plans that every individual will be affected. Whether you communicate online, drive a car or post photos of faces online: All of this is to be recorded on a massive scale and analyzed if necessary.

And it's not just the mass surveillance and expansion of the use of state Trojans that is to come, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats also want a paradigm shift: informational self-determination is to be put to the stake, data use and all the "AI" nonsense is to be given priority.

The government-to-be is throwing overboard a concept that has so far been able to offer us some protection from the most disgusting effects of surveillance capitalism. However, informational self-determination is a fundamental right and is not even up for discussion for free-wheeling surveillance believers who are oblivious to history. We must remind them of this.

The planned surveillance list

• Data retention: All IP addresses and port numbers of all people are to be stored for three months without cause.
• "Source tapping" is being expanded: This is the state trojan that monitors communications. The federal police will now also be allowed to hack.
• Mass biometrics: A "biometric comparison with publicly accessible internet data" is planned, also "using artificial intelligence" (WTF?). The type of body data is undefined; face, voice, DNA are conceivable. In addition, "remote biometric identification" is permitted.
• Grid search: An "automated data search and analysis" is to be created for the data dumps of police forces and secret services. Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria use software from the US company Palantir for this purpose.
• People "with psychological abnormalities" are to be screened for their potential risk of violence and are to be subject to "inter-agency risk management". CDU-Linnemann called it the register for the mentally ill.
• Even more surveillance capitalism: we are to be handed a "culture of data use and data sharing that establishes a data economy". The right to informational self-determination would become a joke.
• Automated license plate reading systems are to record vehicle license plates.
• More video surveillance, wherever crime is to be combated with lots of cameras instead of sensible measures.
• Even more secret service data exchange with even less control.
• The government wants to expand what it misleadingly calls "active cyber defense ". Hacking back is not a defense, but an attack.

If this list doesn't put you in a bad mood, you can't be helped. The CDU, CSU and SPD seem to have learned nothing from decades of established supreme court case law. They are not only sticking to their stubborn insistence on data retention, but are also planning further mass data collection of innocent people without cause.

This draft coalition agreement shows that the waffling phrases about "sovereignty" in the context of "digitalization" are mere window dressing. This is obviously only supposed to exist for US tech companies: With the mantra of mutating us into an "AI nation", the coalition is already sinking to its knees before the new machine landlords as a precaution, with shadow intelligence services such as Palantir included.

As a result, the paper delivers a dictatorship cutlery set, turnkey and tailor-made. The successor government is already licking its repressive claws.

The members of the SPD still have the chance to pull the emergency brake and prevent the dismantling of important basic rights. We therefore appeal to the Social Democrats: Do not vote for this watch list!

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Draft of the coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and SPD in the 21st legislative period: https: //fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/258046-koalitionsvertrag-cdu-csu-spd-2025-entwurf/

Found on https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2025/ueberwachungshoelle