Norway has different views on privacy: Police may stand to lose access to DMV records and more

[That Norwegian Guy]

In a surprise proposition, Norwegian legislators want to revoke police direct access to DMV records. The reason: privacy of Norwegian citizens.

 

 

Where before, any police officer could easily and quickly look up the road record of both driver and car, it is no longer going to be that easy if the proposition goes through.

 

The Norwegian police expectedly shudder at the thought of the added bureaucracy of having to go through the process of getting a warrant to get these records, which they've had unbridled access to for more than 100 years. While proponents of the legislative change are happy that 'recreational', 'nosy' or 'low threshold' use of the two registries (one for car owners and one for the vehicles) would be a thing of the past.

 

Access to the registries would be given as usual ahead of time to routine traffic patrols, however. But it would only be valid for the duration of the patrol.

 

Previously this year, Norway also reigned in on the 'tax search engine' system it has had for many years. Previously, anyone with a computer were able to look up official tax reports on any Norwegian citizen and see their income and tax for last year. Since 2014, this system is no longer anonymous, and each person are now able to see who searched for them. This has cut down searches by more than half.

 

Source: VG.no

[TeddyBur]

That's pretty cool.

[ThreePinkApples]

That's just. Weird.

It is quite usefull for them to have that information so easy at hand

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

One word: LUCKY!!!

[mr moose]

So now the cops won't know if they are pulling over an extremely dangerous murderer that has 7 warrants out against him?

 

EDIT: it's a legit question, I can neither read Norwegian nor is the answer in the OP. 

 

EDIT2: spelling

[That Norwegian Guy]

So know the cops won't know if they are pulling over an extremely dangerous murderer that has 7 warrants out against him?

 

EDIT: it's a legit question, I can neither read Norwegian nor is the answer in the OP. 

 

For the purpouse of prosecution, no they would not be able to access DMV records without court order.

 

The article states that during normally planned traffic controls/ patrols, permission to access the registries would be set in advance with a predetermined period. So in the field, officers would be able to search, granted only within a specific timeframe during a planned routine control.

[Yoinkerman]

So know the cops won't know if they are pulling over an extremely dangerous murderer that has 7 warrants out against him?

 

EDIT: it's a legit question, I can neither read Norwegian nor is the answer in the OP. 

 

It doesn't seem to read like that, no.

[mr moose]

For the purpouse of prosecution, no they would not be able to access DMV records without court order.

 

The article states that during normally planned traffic controls/ patrols, permission to access the registries would be set in advance with a predetermined period. So in the field, officers would be able to search, granted only within a specific timeframe during a planned routine control.

 

To be honest not too sure how I feel about it.  The cops can do that in Australia ( I guess in the US too),  I know if you rub a cop the wrong way you can land in an awful lot of trouble, however with electronic logs on everything they do, it is getting harder for cops to anonymously look up information or access files..

[ShadowCaptain]

I think that is a little bit silly, I am all for privacy, but Police SHOULD have access to that kind of stuff

 

I guess as long as they have access during normal routine partrols then its ok

[Toddwjp]

if i were an internet company i would be looking to move servers to norway, i mean green energy, sensible laws.