The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the sake of children wants to listen to mobile phones of Russians without court sanction

After resonant incidents in Bryansk and the Perm Territory , related to the loss of children and their multi -day search, the Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to legislatively allow the police to listen to the mobile phones of Russians without a court decision in emergency situations related to the search for the missing.

According to the current legislation, mobile operators refuse to provide private individuals with the coordinates of the signal of the last call of the mobile phone, which may be at the missing person, since we are talking about the secret of telephone conversations. And the courts refuse to authorize the investigators by calling the missing persons, the Help in the Help, prepared for the meeting of the "round table" in the State Duma on the problems of searching for missing children.

In this regard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to legislatively oblige the units of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation "to immediately initiate a criminal case for each message about the unacceptable disappearance of a minor", as well as "specially stipulated in the law on operational-search activities, for conducting the operational-searching event" Removing information from the technical communication channels ", including from the cell phone, does not require a judicial Decisions ", reports ITAR-TASS.

This initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already caused a sharply negative reaction among human rights activists. “All this is again aimed at“ twisting of the nuts ”and will be used for a political investigation,” said the leader of the Lev Ponomarev, commenting on Interfax’s proposal, ” the security of the security forces.

He is categorically against allowing the police to listen to citizens' mobile phones without sanction. “I am sure that in each case of the loss of a person everything can be solved promptly. The sanction of the court can be obtained within 15 minutes,” the veteran of the domestic human rights community emphasized.