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The Ministers of the Interior and Justice of Germany have agreed on the text of a law that regulates, among other things, the conduct of secret remote searches of databases stored on citizens' computers, as reported by CyberSecurity.

On Tuesday, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and the head of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Brigitte Zypries, managed to agree on the text of a law that expands the powers of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Deutsche Welle reports.

The last obstacle that prevented the completion of work on the draft law was the provision on the practice of law enforcement officers using so-called online searches – authorized secret searches of databases on citizens' computers suspected of committing serious crimes. The Minister of Justice, as reported by the German news agency dpa, was categorically against the new law allowing investigators to preliminarily enter the homes of suspects to install special software on their computers.

As a result of heated discussions at the level of the two ministries, which lasted for several months, the head of the German Ministry of the Interior had to give in. Before the agreed-upon law is submitted to the federal government, its text must be approved by the federal and regional ministries of the interior and justice.

In February 2007, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that secret searches of personal computers using electronic spyware are inadmissible. The Federal Prosecutor General, Monika Harms, requested a judge's authorization for a secret search of a computer belonging to an Islamist against whom an investigation was underway on suspicion of organizing a terrorist group and committing a number of other crimes. The search was to be carried out using a "Trojan horse" – a special electronic software developed by police computer specialists.

The "Trojan horse" is sent via the Internet, like a virus, to the computer of a potential criminal. There, it secretly copies files from the hard drive and the addresses that the user visited on the Internet, rummages through his email inbox, sends all the collected data to the police for further processing, and then automatically deletes itself from the hard drive, leaving no trace. The entire procedure allows, in a matter of seconds, to collect compromising material on the "targeted" individual, if any exists.

The highest judges ruled that the practice of secret computer searches is inadmissible, since the German Code of Criminal Procedure does not provide for secret searches at all. They must be carried out in the presence of the accused or at least witnesses. The decision of the German Federal Court of Justice goes far beyond the specific case.

I found this on one of the websites on the Internet. If our "big shots" come up with this, they will definitely pass such a law.
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