Sunday, 7. December 2008
Topic: Online-Fahndung - on December 7, 2008 at 11:39:46 AM CET
German police get powers to hack into home computers
Under a compromise between the hardline Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and dissenting MPs, Germany's Parliament is put unprecedented power in the hands of the Federal Criminal Police (BKA).
New laws, some of the toughest in Europe, will also allow police to bug and photograph suspect's homes, tap their phones and track the location of their mobile calls.
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