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Deutsch: Tschechien: Polizei verschafft sich illegal Zugang zu Verkehrsdaten
An inspection of the Czech Interior Ministry has revealed that police detective Marian Hudec from Varnsdorf was gaining phone call statements including those of President Vaclav Klaus´s closest aides as well as those of Constitutional Court Chairman Pavel Rychetsky.
According to MfD paper, Hudec obtained the numbers of some prominent people and wrote to the judge that he did not know the owners of the mobile numbers, but that he was working on order and the numbers obtained were linked to the investigation into white slave trade in his region. The judge, however, sanctioned access to the statements.
Czech Prime Minister considered this was a serious abuse of the police and showed failure of courts that sign whatever police submits to them. These were traffic and location data retained under the national data retention legislation and a procedure according to the Criminal Procedure Code was used for the access to the respective data. Therefore this might not be an individual mistake but rather a faulty system.
Irrespective of who's to be blamed for that, the procedure is worrying as a private person or a firm could thus easily get hold of sensitive data on whom and how often the high-placed people call.
Czech police was gaining phone statements of Klaus´s aides- press
(20.06.2011)
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