Protest in front of the Presidential Palace. “Duda on Wawel” – Czech Television

Members of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy together with representatives of Amnesty International, a human rights organization, demonstrated yesterday in front of the Presidential Palace against the amendment of the Police Act. Some of the protesters chanted “Duda on Wawel”.

The recording, you can hear various passwords posted on YouTube Michael Rachoń. The demonstrators brought with them the banners saying: “Officer, log out of my private life!” and “There is no freedom without privacy.”

Last night, Andrzej Duda invited protesters to the Presidential Palace. The meeting with the president attended Draginja Nadażdin, director of Amnesty International, Aleksandra Zielinska, coordinator of the campaign AI and Wojciech Klicki Foundation Panoptykon. Law Firm represented in turn Malgorzata Sadurska, the head of the Polish Communist Party, and Marek Magierowski, a spokesman for the head of state.

– The President explained why he signed the bill, spoke about the security of the state. If he did not, it would compromised safety (…) heard the claim had to weigh the right. As in every country there is a debate about the rule a balance between national security and privacy of citizens – said on the air TV Magierowski Republic. READ MORE

Operational Control

novella of the Police Act, which regulates the principles of surveillance and the activities of secret services, President He signed on Friday. The law will come into force next Sunday, February 7. prepared by PiS deputies amendment, which the Senate without amendments adopted on January 29, is to adapt the legal system to the Tribunal’s judgment of 30 July 2014.

The Court held, that the unconstitutional are some legal basis for operational control, as well as the lack of independent control of retrievals of telecommunications services, lack of principles destruction of wiretaps of public trust, eg. lawyers and journalists and the lack of obligation to destroy collected data useless.

TK also ordered determine the maximum duration of operational activities to the entity that a reasonable time after their completion should be informed about them. The amendment clarifies the rules for operational control of the uniformed services, ie police, fiscal control authorities, the Border Guard, Military Police, Internal Security Agency, Intelligence Agency, Military Counterintelligence Service, Service of Military Intelligence, the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Customs Service.

data Internet

According to the law, operational control will be able to be carried up to 18 months (except for counterintelligence). The law organizes a data directory, which will be able to be obtained by the service in order to prevent or detect crime or to save human life or health, or support of search or rescue.

This will be possible in reference to non-content telecommunications data (eg. the phone owner, billing, location, phone number, computer IP), email and web (eg. addresses of visited websites, entries in search engines, e-mail addresses). The law also defines procedures for the verification and destruction of data unnecessary for the proceedings – they are subject without delay komisyjnemu and protokolarnemu destroyed.

Data containing the secrets of his own defense and confession will be immediately destroyed. In the case of data of other trade secrets, including medical journalist and statistical, for their use or destruction of the court is to decide, for the good of justice and whether a given circumstance may be based on other evidence. Since the court’s consent to use in the proceedings secret person to whom it applies, it will not be able to appeal. Telecommunication companies, postal operators, and companies providing services electronically will be required to provide at their own expense technical and organizational conditions to allow the inspection of, or create on-line access by the so-called. a secure Internet connection.