UK Approves Police Hacking Home Computers. By Kim Zetter.
The UK's Home Office is supporting a proposal that would allow British police or MI5 agents to hack home, office and other private computers without a warrant to intercept e-mail traffic and monitor a user's other computer activities. The proposal, initiated by the European Union council of ministers, calls for British police to install spyware on personal computers at the request of other European nations that suspect UK residents of involvement in criminal activity. The only authorization that's needed for the surveillance is for a senior officer to determine that the monitoring is "proportionate" and necessary to investigate a "serious" crime (any crime that carries a possible jail sentence of at least three years). This could involve, for example, anyone suspected of terrorism, pedophilia or identity or credit card theft. more... http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/uk-approves-pol.html _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
