Refugee Service may check mobiles

berlin - German refugee and migration service (BAMF) may soon claim mobiles asylum seekers to verify the data stored on it. This may be necessary to determine whether a person a chance to win a residence permit or be expelled.

The bill of the Ministry of Interior to confiscate phones allows, is currently under review by the various departments before it can be put to the vote. This was announced by a spokesman Monday.

The BAMF can thus easily find out the identity of asylum seekers who do not cooperate themselves. According to the Ministry is about individual cases and one is aware that this measure intervenes in private life. But the stakes are high. Opposition party Die Linke is against the law, which was announced earlier this month, because employees also read diaries and open letters that they have nothing to do.

The foreign ministries of the Länder and the police have to read the right data carriers.