[privacy] Russia: Duma Anxious to Wiretap Every Home in Russia

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Kommersant (props, Pogo Was Right).

[snip]

State Duma deputies are to consider a bill that would give police broader
powers in wiretapping homes in Russia, the Novye Izvestia newspaper
reports.

The bill sanctions wiretapping homes of people suspected or accused of
crimes as well as of those “who may possess information on crimes in
question”, says the bill.

The list includes family and business partners of the suspects or convicts
as well as their former cellmates, according to Viktor Ilykhin, a drafter
of the bill. These people tend to refuse to cooperate with investigators,
which makes it hard to get the information by any other way, lawmakers
note.

Russian law currently permits only court-sanctioned wiretapping of homes of
the people who are preparing, committing or have committed crimes.

[snip]

More:
http://www.kommersant.com/p-10451/r_530/Wiretapping_Human_Rights/

- - ferg

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