Police Scotland did not inform public of mobile phone searches
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Police Scotland conducted trials of cyber kiosks, also known as digital device triage systems, made by the Israeli company Celleberite , in Edinburgh and Stirling, to investigate summary offences.A freedom of information request by the Sunday Herald newspaper revealed that police officers in Stirling and Edinburgh accessed data from 375 phones and 262 SIM cards between 2016 and 2018.Burnett told the committee that once a phone has been examined, the cyber kiosk is deleted from the device, leaving only audit data and a unique reference number.“Worse still, the police stated that individuals were not informed of their rights when mobile phone extraction technologies were used on their devices, no impact assessments were carried out, and they failed to answer whether there existed any independent oversight,” she said.Privacy International wrote to Michael Matheson, the cabinet secretary for justice in the Scottish government on 4 May, raising concerns that there was no clear legislatory framework for cyber kiosks.
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