The cabinet provides, on request of the police did not indicate how often the information of social media users is requested. Captain had requested. Also information about the legitimacy of the claims is not recognised.
Member of parliament Arjan El Fassed asked state secretary Fred Teeven of Security and Justice, how often the users ‘ data on social networks in investigations are requested. According to state secretary Teeven have the chief of police of the national police AGENCY and a senior official of the Public prosecution asked for that information not to be transferred. That means that it is not, writes Green on her website.
The government intends not to specify in how many cases the person about whom data were requested actually was suspicious and or the survey afterwards lawfully revealed. That information is not registered, sets Teeven. General information about calls to be released, he adds.
El Fassed is wondering why the detailed information is not released. “I don’t know what the secretary of state to hide,” said the Member of parliament opposite Tweakers.net. “I don’t see how statistical data criminal justice can interfere.” According to El Fassed, a risk exists that data from social media users more likely to be tapped than we thought, without letting users know. “The netherlands is already the analog aftapkampioen. Internet users need to know what legal protection they have,” he says.
Moreover, citizens from whom data were requested, afterwards, to be informed, ‘as soon as the interest of the investigation permits’. Citizens can then appeal against that withdrawal.
From the annual report of his ministry shows that in 2010, there were 24,000 times so-called ‘historical data’ are queried, but this includes data from telecomklanten. That surveys are, incidentally, independent of internettaps and the retrieval of personal data of telecomklanten. In 2010 there were an average of 131 internettaps per day. Data of internet customers in a central database; in 2011, asked the law enforcement agencies 2.3 million times data. In these figures, the questioning by the security forces, however, are not included, which are in fact secret.
Figures from Google show that the Dutch police in 2010, 43 information opvroeg at Google; these requests were, in two-thirds of the cases approved. For comparison: in Belgium, that happened 85 times, in the United States 4601 times.
Mp El Fassed asked the questions arising from the request of their Twitter account information of several WikiLeaks activists, including Xs4all founder Rop Gonggrijp, and Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
El Fassed asked the cabinet also or the Icelandic citizens on the internet are better protected than the Dutch; the Icelandic government has in the recent period, a number of relatively far-reaching privacy laws take effect. Teeven says too little about the Icelandic legislation to know about it statements to do and not to want, because he the laws of other countries do not want to rate. He notes, however, that the Dutch legislation for the recovery of data, sufficient safeguards would have to protect the privacy.