Fundamental Rights: Constitutional Complaint for Police Cell Phone Reading

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1. Demonstration documented – Cell phone read: GFF takes a journalist to the Federal Constitutional Court (freiheitsrechte.org, Maria Scharlau) The Society for Civil Rights and journalist Hendrik Torner have filed a constitutional complaint because Torner's cell phone was confiscated and read after a demonstration. They criticize the fact that the police are allowed to access all data based on mere suspicion, including private and journalistical…

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Because the police confiscated a journalist's cell phone and fully evaluated it, the latter prefers to the Constitutional Court. Jurists: inside demand clearer rules, which data the officials are allowed to read out. Especially if they have nothing to do with the occasion of the seizure. Mobile phone seizures occur very often at the police. – Publicly released like by unsplash.com Hal GatewoodWhen the police collect a cell phone, can they read a…

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The police confiscated a trade unionist's mobile phone at a demonstration because he documented an action by the guardians of the order, a case for Karlsruhe.

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So far, the police have virtually unlimited access to private smartphones when they seize a device.