Police and CPS scrap digital data extraction forms for rape cases

Exclusive: case of two complainants funded by Equality and Human Rights Commission forces U-turn

The CPS and police have been forced to scrap controversial “digital strip searches” of rape complainants, following a legal threat from two survivors of sexual abuse and sustained campaigning from privacy and human rights groups.

Little more than a year after a new policy around the disclosure of private information was introduced, the police and CPS have made a major U-turn and will withdraw digital data extraction consent forms from operation.

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