Police Phones Secretly Tapped for Over Dozen Years in Germany’s Thuringia
TEHRAN (Basirat)- German police have been recording the telephone conversations of law enforcement in the Thuringia central state without informing them since 1999, Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk reports.
German police have been recording the telephone conversations of law enforcement in the Thuringia central state without informing them since 1999, Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk reports.
sputniknews.com reports:
According to the public broadcaster, the wiretapping was stopped last month after it came into light following a complaint from a local prosecutor.
The Thuringia Interior Ministry ordered to start recording the
telephone conversations in 1999. According to Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk,
tens of thousands of conversations between different law enforcement
members and representatives of social services, attorneys and
journalists, among others, were recorded without informing the people or
asking their permission.
It is still not clear who was responsible for deciding which data was to be stored and what information was destroyed.
An investigation is underway.
