I'm monitoring?Dutch police preserved 9 million people relocated, marriage, and national data

Every day, the police have received personal information updates of millions of people, such as moving, marriage or changes in nationality. Even if the current cases no longer need data from these people, they are still retained in the system.

In the Netherlands, if the police need personal data, they have the right to request from the database. For example, for large DNA tests, police can request data from those living in a postal code area. Police can also go to the registration office to get information about the suspects, victims, witnesses or reporters.

Information update subscription

In order to maintain the latest data, everyone recorded by the police system was required to agree to "information update", and the Dutch loyalty reported Trouw. This means that the police will automatically receive personal data changes. The internal document seen by the newspaper said that even if the person involved had died, personal data would never be deleted. According to this document, the National identity data office responsible for the safe use of personal data has criticized the police as early as 2015.

However, everything has not changed, Trouw wrote. According to internal documents, the police have a new policy that is the police no longer track everyone who has been in contact with, but to track specific groups or individuals (such as criminal suspects or people holding gun licenses). But the new policy has not yet come into effect.

potential risks

According to Rejo Znger, a privacy expert of the civil rights organization BITS of Freedom, the police collected the data they did not need illegal. "Police should not collect data beyond their scope of work," he said, there are a large number of personal information, such as privacy leaks.

However, the police denied the possibility of illegal law. "If there is no latest personal data, the police will not be able to complete the work," said Henk Geveke of the police force management department. "We have the legal basis for using and retaining these data. At the same time, we are also trying Reduce the amount of personal data. "

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