Surrey and Sussex police unlawfully recorded phone calls via app, watchdog finds
by Ben Quinn from World news | The Guardian on (#6AXD7)
Information Commissioner's Office reprimands forces as app was originally intended for hostage negotiators
Two police forces have been reprimanded by Britain's data watchdog after officers unlawfully recorded more than 200,000 phone conversations using an app originally intended for hostage negotiators.
The automatic recordings, made over several years, included highly sensitive" conversations with victims, witnesses and perpetrators of suspected crimes, according to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
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