Berlin. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has published unredacted information Protocols from the RKI crisis team on the corona pandemic. “Insofar as personal data and commercial and company secrets of third parties are unlawfully published in these data sets and, in particular, the rights of third parties are violated, the RKI expressly disapproves of this,” the institute said. The RKI has neither checked nor verified the data sets, it said.
A group led by a journalist who is one of the critics of the federal government’s Corona policy published the documents online and presented them at a press conference on Tuesday. The group claims that it is the complete data set of all meeting minutes of the crisis team from the period between 2020 and 2023.
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In response to the publication, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wrote in X that the RKI planned to publish the protocols anyway with his consent. “Now it is happening without the rights of third parties, including employees, having been protected in advance. “There is still nothing to hide,” said the minister.
In May, the RKI had already published the protocols for the period from January 2020 to April 2021, largely without redactions. Certain personal data as well as commercial and corporate secrets of third parties remained unrecognizable. The trigger was an earlier publication of the protocols by the online magazine “Multipolar”, which critics consider to be close to publishing conspiracy theories. (dpa)