"Wiretapping of telephone conversations, data interpretation, reading emails, chat talks and so on."
That’s how the German company Syborg Informations syteme boasted 7 years ago at an IT fair. On May 25 this year, the Germans signed a contract with the Romanian Police for a system that, at least officially, will be responsible for locating mobile phones. Police say that the system will be useful, for example, in cases of abductions or disappearances.
Authorities in Germany have bought a similar system to be used in five landers. Among the ones intercepted, there featured also the head of a department within the Ministry of Environment, involved in a drinking water scandal.
The wiretaps were not accessed only by the prosecution but by the Syborg employees too.
The tapings contained records of private conversations, conversations with lawyers or state officials. After the investigating authorities revealed the innocence of Harald Friedrich, magistrates have ordered all data be deleted. Only that Syborg equipment just could not do it. It required an additional control function by the police and paid separately, with over 100 thousand euro.
Harald Friedrich has been asking the authorities for three years to erase the data obtained illegally. Without any resolution to that effect..
Romania bought a similar system, which should be delivered in early September. The equipment costs more than 600 thousand Euros. IGPR officials declined to comment on the scandals that involved the German company.
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