If you have read in various American newspapers that the police and federal government agencies are allowed to investigate mobile phones or computers without a warrant, well this is also happening in Romania. According to a normative act voted by the Senate, which is the decision-making chamber in this case, SRI can search any computer system without a warrant.
If until now the SRI needed a court order to search through user data, the new law gives them total freedom for data verification. The SRI initiated this law with the idea of preventing and countering cyber threats, but through it it will be able to do whatever it wants, at its discretion.
The Romanian Information Service will have free access to check Romanians' computers. It's about all the information, programs and data found on home computers. The SRI will be able to carry out checks without a warrant, after the controversial law on cyber security passed the Senate, which is the decision-making chamber. The normative act was voted by all 92 deputies present, from all parties. The controversial law provides for the authorization of computer searches, even without the consent of a judge.
Unfortunately, the opposition to a computer search made by the SRI will not be possible if the intelligence agencies want to check your computer, so you will have nothing to do but allow them access. It seems that mobile terminals would not be included in the list of devices that can be checked, so theoretically the data in them would be safe.
Based on this law, the SRI will be able to check everything that exists on your computer, so all the programs, pictures, messages, movies and anything you have available. The verification does not necessarily involve the confiscation of data by the SRI except in the case where it is proven that you have committed a crime or threatened national security.
