The telecomdatabase CIOT, in which information about internet and telefoniegebruikers, it is not comprehensive. The government wants to make providers more data to the telecomdatabank to pipelining, but that is not so.
The research into the expansion of the CIOT database is without notice terminated, is evident from a letter which privacy organization Bits of Freedom in the hands has been a request on the basis of the freedom of information Act. In the letter writes to a senior official of the Ministry of Security and Justice that extension ‘is not appropriate shall be deemed’.
The government investigated or providers also historical data to the database would need to upload. Now all of send internet – and telecom providers to their entire customer base once a day to the government so that investigation and security services directly with the contact details of internet and phone users can access.
If the plan were persevered in, had the police, for example, also be able to retrieve information about older data, for example, where someone some time ago lived. Also, the data about internet and phone usage would then be stored in the database. That information remains, however, on demand: internet and telecom providers have such data for six months to a year to save, and the investigation and security services can then request. The difference is that the information is not directly at the government itself is stored.
The plan is already at the end of 2010 be repealed, as it now appears. Initially considered the government, by the way also data of bank customers in the database, but that was later.
Bits of Freedom is glad that the database is not further expanded, but this is actually completely stopped. KPN said earlier all out against the expansion of the database, because there is too little control would be on the legality of inzageverzoeken.