AR auditor’s opinion defends deputies’ access to SMS and emails without a judge’s authorization

NAt a time when there was talk of resorting to telephone tapping, Parliament’s legal auditor, a deputy attorney general, wrote an opinion for the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) into the twins’ case, arguing that Parliament can force citizens to deliver private communications, such as written messages, WhatsApps or emails, without going through the Public Ministry (MP) and a judge, as happens in criminal cases. And it goes further to argue that, if citizens do not hand them over, they incur crimes of “qualified disobedience†.