The UK is set to pass new laws that authorise mobile phone data access for crime suspects and witnesses. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill introduced to Parliament this week contains clauses permitting the police to extract data from mobile phones if the user "voluntarily" hands the device over. Police are only allowed to examine a device where they are investigating or prosecuting a crime, or "helping to locate a missing person", or "protecting a child" from harm. A code of practice is also to be introduced. However, privacy campaigners Big Brother Watch (BBW) claim that "this is a missed opportunity to legislate for a proportionate, fair, rights-respecting digital evidence system.
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