RKI imports published contagion-reduced Corona-Protocols
The RKI published the unredacted protocols of the Corona Crisis Task Force - it only withheld personally identifiable information and business and trade secrets of third parties. Critics of Corona politics then published the documents in their entirety. The RKI is displeased.
The Robert Koch Institute has criticized the publication of unredacted protocols of the RKI Crisis Task Force on the Corona Pandemic. "To the extent that personal data and business and trade secrets of third parties were illegally published and the rights of third parties were violated in these data sets, the RKI explicitly condemns this," the Institute stated.
The RKI did not check or verify the data sets, it was stated. A group around a journalist, who is counted among the critics of the Corona Politics of the Federal Government, published the documents online and presented them at a press conference. The group states that it concerns the complete dataset of all session protocols of the Crisis Task Force from 2020 to 2023. The journalist demanded a "comprehensive and honest processing" of the Corona Politics in Germany at X. The unredacted protocols should contribute to this.
In response to the publication, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote on X that the RKI had planned to publish the protocols with his approval. "Now it is happening, without the rights of third parties, including employees, having been protected beforehand. There is still nothing to hide," so the SPD politician. The RKI had already published the protocols for the period January 2020 to April 2021 largely without redactions in May. Certain personally identifiable information and business and trade secrets of third parties remained redacted.
The trigger was a previous publication of the protocols by the online magazine "Multipolar", which is considered to be in the vicinity of conspiracy-theory publications by critics. The fact that numerous passages were redacted at the time caused a debate about the independence of the RKI.
The RKI's displeasure stemmed from the widespread publication of the Corona Crisis Task Force's unredacted protocols, which went against the Institute's redacted versions, particularly during the Corona Measures period. The issue arose after the Robert Koch Institute withheld certain personal data and business secrets in their initial publication.
