Accessing personal data stored by the intelligence and security services
Organisations in the Netherlands can process your personal data if they have a good reason for doing so. "Processing" is understood to mean the collection, recording, organisation and storage of your data. The Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst – AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) and the Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst – MIVD ( Defence Information and Security Service) collect personal data. They need this data in order to carry out their tasks. You can ask what data these services have stored about you.
Last updated on 28 December 2021
Access to personal data
Would you like to know whether, and if yes, which data the AIVD and MIVD have collected data about you? If so, you can submit a request for inspection to the AIVD (in Dutch). Or you can request your data from the MIVD (in Dutch) . You can also request data about a family member who was resident in the Netherlands and is now deceased .
Laws and regulations (in Dutch)
Law on the intelligence and security services (right to access personal data) 2017, paragraph 5.2