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Police officer: Insufficient legal basis for data processing
A police officer had accessed data in a police database for private research purposes.
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A police officer had accessed data in a police database for private research purposes. The police officer queried his stepson's investigative process in order to prepare him for his testimony and to convince the officer in charge of the case of a different crime sequence.
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