Special Measures for Covert Data Collection : oversight handbook
Special Measures for Covert Data Collection : oversight handbook

Author(s): Predrag Petrović, Saša Đorđević, Katarina Đokić, Jelena Pejić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Civil Society, Governance, Government/Political systems, Security and defense, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Surveillance; Security services; Security threats; Technology and communication; Suspect monitoring; Privacy infringement; Criminal proceedings; Money Laundering; National Assembly of Serbia; Criminal Procedure Code;
Summary/Abstract: Wiretapping and tailing of suspects are the traditional mainstays of security service activity. However, the multiplication and growing complexity of security threats and risks, as well as development of technology and communications has led to an increase in the number and variety of techniques used to covertly gather data, such as secretly accessing people’s communications. Additionally, the number of government bodies and institutions implementing such measures has grown beyond the police and security services to include, for example, the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering and has also come to include private detective and investigative agencies. Today such measures are no longer applied only for preventative intelligence gathering but also in the course of criminal proceedings. The situation is further confounded by the fact that these activities are governed by a vast number of (unintegrated) regulations and by decreasing understanding of this field, both by the general public and by professionals. This is best illustrated by the fact that lawmakers use a variety of terms to define such measures in legislation: “special procedures and measures” (Law on the VBA and VOA), “special measures infringing on the privacy of correspondence and other communications” (Law on the BIA) and “special investigative activity” (Criminal Procedure Code).

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