Rape victims are still being asked to hand over their mobile phones as part of “excessive” police scrutiny, nearly a year on from a Government pledge to overhaul how cases are investigated, the data watchdog has warned.
Information Commissioner John Edwards has called for an immediate end to the criminal justice sector collecting vast swathes of information – including phone analysis described as a “digital strip search” – amid concerns that victims of rape and other serious sexual offences continue to be “treated as suspects”.
