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Private vacation photos, love messages - is that any of the police's business?

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By 2025, the current regulations on cell phone seizures will have to be updated. Otherwise, the police and public prosecutor's office will have the right to confiscate cell phones without urgent suspicion - anyone who has stored IDs, documents, credit cards and private records is simply out of luck.

The justice system is currently in a state of flux. As reported, the planned change in the law on the seizure of cell phones is causing a stir and another coalition row. A decision by the Constitutional Court - following a complaint by a manager from Carinthia who did not want to put up with the intrusion into his private life - was the decisive factor in the discussion as to whether a cell phone is covered by the secrecy of correspondence.