Tuesday, February 6, 2007

German Court bans PC spying

Germany's High Court has handed down a landmark decision <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=28600">banning police from installing spyware</A> on computers of suspected criminals without their knowledge. The decision, announced Monday, is a blow to the plans of German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble to give the Federal Criminal Police Office greater power to monitor terrorists and other criminals online, and peek inside their computers. Two other federal judges had differed over whether police should be able to hack into the computers of suspected criminals and install spyware. In February, one judge approved police hacking. But another barred the practice in November, resulting in an appeal by federal prosecutors.

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