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The body that represents the interests of the Spanish legal
profession (CGPJ) has received reports from judges in Catalonia that the Catalan
government has had undue access to their computers for purposes of inspection,
control and monitoring. Such access is not allowed by law.
A number of judges reported that a message from the Catalan
government appeared on their computer screens informing them of possible access
to their computers. In order to remove this message they had to click on a
confirmation that they had read it and were expressly aware of the terms and conditions
which this access was taking place.
The CGPJ has ordered the Catalan government to
provisionally suspend “all activity of inspection control and monitoring of
judicial affairs” and to provide within 15 days “a detailed report of all cases
of access that have taken place in Courts in Catalonia”.
It has opened a formal investigation into any possible illegitimate
access to judicial proceedings. These computer records obviously contain a
large amount of sensitive personal data of people involved in court cases. Legal
access to them is limited by law to the CGPJ and is strictly controlled within
the profession.
Source
(Spanish)
(Catalan judges complain to the CGPJ
that the Catalan government had undue access to their computers)
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