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Netherlands: Surveillance law

01 July 1992

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The Dutch Justice minister has introduced a bill on the use of microphones and transmitters by the police saying that the police need to be equipped in order to beat the organised crime. It is clear however that the police are already using these surveillance methods and it has been admitted that the police are monitoring fax-communications. Lawyers say microphones are being used and that if suspects forget to put the receiver on the hook the police are capable of monitor discussions in a living room or office. Some years ago the Hoge Raad (supreme court) decided that information gathered in this way could be used legally in evidence.

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