The city of Dresden has dismissed an IT employee for allegedly storing the entire electoral notification directory privately. This contains data on around 430,000 eligible voters in the state capital - names, addresses and dates of birth. "The accused has since declared on oath that he has not used, passed on or copied the data in question," the city announced. He has been banned from the premises.
The public prosecutor's office and Dresden police headquarters are investigating the 54-year-old on suspicion of violating Saxony's Data Protection Implementation Act. He is also accused of connecting external private storage media to the city's official IT technology without authorization from May to mid-October of this year and transferring a total of around 270,000 files. The man worked as a system administrator in the city's own IT services company for the citizens' office, among others.
