The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation allowed investigators to read electronic correspondence without court permission

reports on Wednesday, February 14 The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation allowed investigators to read correspondence from phones, tablets and computers without the appropriate permission of the court, RAPSI .

The information contained in the electronic memory of subscriber devices confiscated during investigative actions does not imply the issuance of a special court decision on this, the Constitutional Court believes.

According to the head of the Agora human rights group Pavel Chikov, the practice of employees of the Investigative Committee or the FSB seizing electronic devices during a search or examination and reading correspondence is widespread: unable. Therefore, password gadgets and encrypt their contents,” writes Chikov.

Dmitry Prozorovsky, who is serving a sentence of imprisonment, filed a complaint with the court against the rules of the law on search. He contested three articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure: 176 (Grounds for conducting an inspection), 177 (Procedure for conducting an inspection) and 195 (Procedure for appointing a forensic examination).