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Crossing the Thin Blue Line
January 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Crossing the Thin Blue Line
Police set to step up hacking of home PCs
As long as a senior officer “believes” it is “appropriate,” UK citizens can be subject to covert hacking of their email, instant messaging, and web browser history. A d
ecision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels allows for “remote searching” of hard drives at a user’s home, office, or hotel room. Civil liberty groups and opposition MPs have described the move as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws.
