Entries tagged as law enforcementFriday, January 12. 2007Democracy, Freedom and the Internet.
The German District Attorney of Halle has urged the Credit Card Industry to screen all 20-22 million German credit cards for transactions along some criteria - without having an initial suspicion of any criminal behaviour. Any such screening and searching is only legal through a warrant. Now there are two immediate scandals obvious:
It almost comes as no surprise that the Police Union says that illegal means in investigations are fine to get results. What it was all about? Child pornography. Which, according to German Law, is about in the same category as Wilful Damage to Property (which would almost be a joke in itself if it wasn't so sad). The screening of the 20 million German credit cards yielded 322 suspects. Udo Vetter wants to have a court state if the District Attorney's action was legal or not. I'm wondering what our current government will try next. 
Friday, January 12. 2007German Government plans a Federal Trojan
The German Federal Government plans to have a Trojan created to
Currently the legality of this plan is under scrutiny (the first try to get an "online search" done was stopped as illegal by a judge), but the government is not afraid to tout that they will create the legal grounds for it if necessary. Heise has published more information, among them the factoid that two programmers will be hired to write the trojan and that the development should not cost more than 200,000 € in total. The brazenness of this idea is astounding (not to mention dumbfounding) - not to mention that they will have a hard time against people with at least some security skill. Oh well, it's always good to see perfectly good tax money go down the drain.
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