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Switzerland: Drug computer

01 July 1996

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The federal police authority has already stored 250,000 items of data on 50,000 persons in the drug data bank DOSIS since its start two years ago in only eight cantons. More cantons are going to join this data bank now. The target group are people suspected of drug dealing, drug consumers are not included. DOSIS has been criticized for its lack of data protection. There is no right of access to information for the persons concerned. Data can be stored for up to ten years, the internal control procedure is seen as a farce with only four people responsible for checking whether the data fulfils the legal criteria for inclusion. WoZ, 12.7.1996; see feature in this issue.

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