Police in the
German capital Berlin regularly misuse their internal information database,
POLIKS. Reports by the daily Morgenpost reveal a case when a police officer used
the database to spy on her neighbours for years.
Though the case wasn’t unique, the head
of the Berlin Police press office acknowledged to the paper that they are aware
of similar cases, however, there are no statistics available on database misuse. Such misuse is possible since the
German authorities do not have a systematic logging of database queries to
prevent such abuses.
Tech & Rights
Berlin Police Database Regularly Misused
Police in the German capital Berlin regularly misuse their internal information database, POLIKS. Reports by the daily Morgenpost reveal a case when a police officer used the database to spy on her neighbours for...
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