UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages
A new UK law will explicitly authorise the “voluntary” slurping of data from mobile phones of crime suspects and witnesses.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which was introduced to Parliament this week, contains clauses that will allow police and others to extract data from mobile phones if the user “voluntarily” hands the device over.cA legally binding code of practice will also be introduced.
It appears that the proposed law is an effort to address campaigners by introducing some easy-to-meet procedural requirements.
