est Land authority, or otherwise a Federal Ministry commissioned by the Federal
Chancellor.
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§§ 4 and 5 of the North Rhine-Westphalian Act on the Implementation of the Act re
Article 10 of the Basic Law (nordrhein-westfälisches Gesetz über die Ausführung des
Gesetzes zu Artikel 10 Grundgesetz) (below: Act on the Implementation of the Act re
Article 10 of the Basic Law – AG G 10 NRW), referred to in § 5a.3 of the North RhineWestphalia Constitution Protection Act, read as follows in excerpts:
§ 4 Review, labelling and deletion obligations, transmissions, limitation principle
(1) The collecting agency shall examine without delay, and then at intervals of at
most six months, whether the collected personal data is necessary in the context of
its tasks for the purposes designated in § 1.1 no. 1 of the Act re Article 10 of the Basic
Law, on its own or together with data that is already available. Insofar as the data is
not necessary for these purposes and is not needed for transmission to other agencies, it shall be deleted without delay under the supervision of an official who has the
qualification to hold judicial office. …
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§ 5 Control of transmission to persons concerned by the G 10 Commission
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(1) Restrictive measures shall be notified to persons concerned by the Minister of
the Interior after their cessation if a risk to the purpose of the restriction can be ruled
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1. The complainant re 1a is a journalist and writes primarily for an online publication.
In the context of her work, she also visits Internet sites which are operated by anticonstitutional persons and organisations. She is also committed to data protection
matters, and together with others operates the website www.stop1984.com. In connection with this site it is possible to participate in so-called chats. This possibility is
also used by right-wing extremists. The complainant re 1a stores information on
these individuals on the hard disk of her computer, which she uses for both private
and work purposes.
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The complainant re 1b is an active member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Land
association of the party DIE LINKE, which is being observed by the North RhineWestphalian constitution protection authority. He also uses his computer, which is
connected to the Internet, for his political activities. Like the complainant re 1a, he also uses the Internet for private communication and to transact payments via his current account.
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The complainants re 2a and 2b are partners in a law firm. The complainant re 2a assists as a lawyer asylum-seekers amongst others. One of these was a leading mem-
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