Police Net searches banned
p2pnet.net News:- German police won’t be allowed to “secretly search suspects’ computer hard drives over the Internet,” the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe has ruled.
The decision bars police from using software to search through remote hard drives, “unless parliament passes a law explicitly allowing the technique,” says Associated Press.
They will, however, “still will be allowed to seize evidence from PCs when conducting searches in person,” says the story, adding:
“The decision came in response to a request by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which had sought to use Trojan horse programs to investigate a possible terrorist group.”
Also See:
Associated Press – German police barred from secretly searching computers over Internet, February 5, 2007
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February 7th, 2007 at 4:03 am
“The decision came in response to a request by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which had sought to use Trojan horse programs to investigate a possible terrorist group.”
Wow, a government that has some kind of oversight of what their police are doing? That’s a radical concept, i’m sure it’ll never take off though. Certainly not in Dubya’s USofA.