The Ministry of Justice is considering extending the legal bases for police monitoring of mobile phones to consumers. The bill should have been submitted before the summer, but has been delayed.
There is legislation for police access to the so-called signal monitoring by the Ministry investigating further. According to the class struggle, the police in recent years driven monitoring in a legal gray area without clear legal provisions.
Now wants the Justice Department to open for the police to obtain further authorization to use the “silent SMS” and other types of signal monitoring.
– Among the questions considered is the use of so-called silent SMS but also other technical tools that can predict how a cell phone or other communication device is, says advisor Mari Vindedal Beach Ministry of Justice.
method “silent SMS” is that the police send an invisible text message to a mobile phone to subsequently ascertained where the phone and owner are.
Public Prosecutions has recently concluded that there is a need for a separate legal basis for the use of the method.
Vindedal Strand told the newspaper that it is still too early to say when a consultation proposals can be expected.
(NTB)
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