When the Danish Minister of Justice on Monday went out and warned that the so-called teledata case could damage the judiciary's confidence, it was an indication of the seriousness of the matter.

Prosecutors are temporarily stopped from using location data from mobile phones as evidence, and over 10,000 criminal cases will be reviewed to see if they need to be re-examined.

“Time and time again, new information comes up in the teledata case. It disrupts our confidence in the justice system, ”reads the statement by Minister Nick Hekkerup.

Other system in Sweden

These are serious errors in the program that handles mobile location data with the Danish police.

First, it turned out that not all phones that were connected to a particular telemast appeared in the program. Then it turned out that the positions indicated by the program cannot be trusted.

Do not suspect errors in the data

The question has been raised about whether similar problems can affect other countries, but in Sweden the Police uses a different internal system, says the Police Press Service to SVT.

"We have a close and close dialogue and collaboration with all major telecommunications operators in Sweden," the press service writes in its email.

"However, if there is a fault in the raw data, the police cannot answer but is a question for the operators, but we have no reason at present to suspect that this would be the case."