In 2011, the government, especially the police, more than 2.3 million times information about customers of telco’s and isp’s requested. That number is for the second year in a row decreased. The withdrawal of the security forces will not be counted.
The Ministry of Security and Justice has the number of enquiries published. Administrations and the criminal investigation department and the police, in 2011, less data is requested. They asked in 2010 to 2.6 million times the data in 2011 was 2.3 million times; that’s a decline of more than 10 percent.
In 2010, the decline in the number of enquiries already; in 2009, that number is still 2.9 million. The data were obtained from a central database containing information about subscribers from internet service providers and telecommunications companies. Which companies provide the data once per day. In 91 percent of the cases could the information be found.
The ones Kennemerland made in the past year the most use of the database, with no less than 240.000 questionings. In the previous year, went to the police in the region Amsterdam-Amstelland, still head, with approximately 430.000 questionings. That number is in the last year have plummeted, to about 167.500.
The figures are not complete; it is a secret how often the intelligence services AIVD and MIVD to query data. When the government were planning to make the database to expand, to historical data, and even data of bank customers. That plan, however, was fired.
Number of enquiries telecomdatabank
2004
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991.273
2005
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1.220.518
2006
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1.771.941
2007
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1.901.024
2008
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2.827.839
2009
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2.930.941
2010
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2.592.320
2011
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2.328.595