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Journalist Complains Against Comprehensive Mobile Phone Evaluation

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When are police officers allowed to evaluate mobile phones confiscated? This could clarify the lawsuit of a journalist and trade unionist whose smartphone has been examined. The lawsuit also "Reporters Without Borders" joined.
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1. Cell Phone Data Analyzed: RSF Supports Lawsuit (reporter-ohne-grenzen.de) Reporters Without Borders, together with the Society for Civil Rights, is demanding that the police's comprehensive and unfounded analysis of cell phone data be stopped. The reason for this is the lawsuit filed by young journalist Hendrik Torner, whose smartphone was confiscated by the police after Torner reported on a demonstration, and whose data was extensively analy…

Handy-Streit: Journalist Hendrik Torner complains to the regional court of Bamberg against the evaluation of his smartphone by the police. His phone had been confiscated when he wanted to report about an action of the last generation. Based on his mobile phone data, the police had created a political profile of him. Torner sees a violation of his privacy and the freedom of the press. taz.de (Photo: IMAGO / Herrmann Agency Photography)

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When are police officers allowed to evaluate mobile phones confiscated? This could clarify the lawsuit of a journalist and trade unionist whose smartphone has been examined. The lawsuit also "Reporters Without Borders" joined.

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rnd.de broke the news in Germany on Thursday, June 19, 2025.
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