Police are asking for weekly data ov-chipkaart on

The police asked several times per week’ information of ov-chipkaart on, reports the Telegraph. That happens, for example, to missing persons to find. That is required by law, emphasizes the organization behind the ov-chipkaart.

The number of enquiries by the police to exactly is unknown; the Telegraph keep it on ‘several times a week’. Although the police stressed that this also happens to missing persons to find, it is not clear how often information in a police investigation is requested. TLS, the company behind the ov-chipkaart, is legally required to have data to deliver if the request meets the legal requirements, says the company.

Data of travellers using public transport, such as information about who is where at what time has in and checked out, a year should be preserved; a few years ago that was seven years, but it were the public transport companies by the Dutch data protection on the knuckles. Meanwhile, travel information los kept of the names and addresses of travelers, so that the data is legally better protected. If the police want that data, however, are linked and delivered, the Telegraph.

The police will also be looking regularly into the database of the Servicehuis Park, which contains number plate data of parkers in many villages and towns. Among them are Amsterdam, Almere and Amersfoort. How often is there data to be retrieved is unclear; The Telegraph keeps it at ‘a few times’. Previously showed that the Servicehuis data too long preserved, making the Tax parkeergegevens for the whole of 2012 could request, to do research to leaserijders. By now, the term will be shortened to thirteen weeks.