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Masahiro Tamura, a professor of police administrative law at Kyoto Sangyo University who previously served as head of the National Police Academy. He was commenting on a Nagoya court which ordered police to delete fingerprint, DNA and mug shot data of a man found innocent of a crime, an unprecedented ruling that could affect how police databases are managed.
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It is desirable to eliminate the concerns of the public by establishing an easily understood system regarding the storing and usage of such data.
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Ricky Kaminski13
Yes, it’s called transparency.
Sven Asai
If it is only case related data and of course not systematically collected data from citizens like done in dictatorships or former iron curtain regimes, I would even recommend to keep it. In general, police work requires such data of course. And you never know, there are cases when a former innocent one is involved anyway or turns out back into being a suspect again in the same or a related or another case. How can you properly treat those cases then, if the already available and potentially helpful data had to be deleted in between , by police itself or after a jurist’s decision?
piskian
Wasn't there an article recently in which the police were still storing personal data on floppy disks?