Remote search of citizens' computers and police Trojans in a draft amendment to the Polish Act on the Police

If someone was looking for information on the planned law amending the Police Act, about which some media wrote that in its power "officers would receive more powers to surveillance and track citizens", and it is M.in.About the possibility of remote browsing the content of hard drives ("the use of electronic means enabling the intravenous and remote access to the recording on an IT data carrier, content of broadcasting and receipt and their recording", I will gladly show several source materials, because it is not only about such remoteSearch (the draft amendment has 69 pages and justification of 60 pages; see.also the data retention department of this website).In terms of remote search of disks, the projector refers to German works, which I commented on in several texts published on this website.It is also worth noting that the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights criticizes the project.

I wrote about the German legislative process, which concerned the permissions for remote and secretive search of disks, I wrote.in.In the texts: the horse as it is, not everyone sees, i.e. German work on the "Federal Trojan" project, with one voice the advantage was adopted in Germany, new BKA surveillance rights, remote search of computers (German) citizens - CD.discussion and remote surveillance of citizens' computers and the resolution of the German Constitutional Tribunal.This is not only a German tendency: remote surveillance of citizens' computers - Great Britain meets the EU strategy.Our police also bends over the problem of encryption of content on media, so I refer to such texts as you encrypt?Reveal the key or prison.and they could not get to (allegedly) secretly the recordings carried out.

At the beginning, several media reports and comments on the designed amendment: bugs in phones and spying of computers, i.e. new police powers, HFPC critically about the extension of the operational police rights.

Since I promised source materials, the question arises: where to look for a project?Not on the BIP subjective website of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, not on the BIP subjective website of the Ministry of Justice.This project should be sought on the BIP Police website: a draft act amending the Act on the Police and some other acts.

Zdalne przeszukanie komputerów obywateli i policyjne trojany w projekcie nowelizacji polskiej ustawy o Policji

The amendment is indeed extensive, but let's choose only one topic.In the project in the mouth.6 In item 3 of the Police Act, the dot is replaced by a medium and it is added point 4 in the wording:

In the justification for the project (unfortunately DOC) you can read about this procedure:

Besides, the draft amendment M.in.expands the catalog of crimes at which the police can use surgical control.What does the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights say?

The full content of the opinion of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights of September 30, 2009., which was transferred to the Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, P.Witold Drożdż, is available on the Foundation's website (PDF).

Since in the above -mentioned justification of the project we are talking about the amendment to the Act on the provision of electronic services, I am also referring to this day published next to the text: The police are seeking the introduction of the statutory obligation of the retention of data processed by Internet service providers.