Can the Royal Barbados Police Force wiretap at police discretion without a judicial order?
We might be wrong folks, but it looks to us like our Barbados police CAN legally wiretap your phone or look at your email and internet data for just about any reason they choose – without a warrant, without any judicial oversight and without ever informing you! You have to understand that your BFP crew are not lawyers, and we’re happy to have some input from our readership – but this is what it looks like to us so far. We found two primary pieces of Barbados law that touch upon the issue of “wiretapping” or the secret interception of electronic communications in all forms by the Barbados police or ordinary citizens. This first is our Constitution and the second is the Telecommunications Act. The Computer Misuse Act is a third law but it seems to deal with seizure of computers and data devices, not the interception of data or conversations by the police unless there is a breach of the act itself. In other words – the police cannot obtain a Computer Misuse Act warrant to obtain computer
