Control on Albanian cell phones

The opposition claims that a government decision will allow them to access the phones of every user. The decision requires every citizen to declare their IMEI-n, the personal number of the cell-phone, to the respective phone company. All the data will be preserved in a server that will be managed by the Ministry of Finances.

If citizens do not register their IMEI at the phone company, the government decision will force them to interrupt services. According to the DP, this verdict violates the Constitution, the European Card of human rights, and allows the government to control the private life of citizens.

With their complaint at the Constitutional Court, the Democratic Party explains the legal basis about the anti-constitutionality of this government decision, underlining that through the IMEI number and the preservation of the data in a server of the Ministry of Finances, the government has full and unsupervised access to every action that citizens make with their phones, from text messages, phone conversations and usage of any social media application.

The Democratic Party brought a similar decision from the Court of Luxembourg, which rejected a Directive of the European Union which requested phone companies to preserve the IMEI information.

Besides considering this decision as anti-constitutional, the Democratic Party asked the Constitutional Court to suspend any government decision, so that citizens will never be forced to declare their IMEI to phone companies.

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