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It's Now Legal for Police to Hack Your Computer Without a Warrant in Britain?

By DrewWilson

If it's the job of the government to safeguard the interests of citizens, it's sure hard to tell these days with moves like this. Fresh on the heals of India adopting new surveillance techniques that make privacy one step closer to becoming history in that country, the Home Office of Britain has adopted a plan for British police to covertly hack citizens computers without a warrant. Basically, if a police officer wanted to, he can go wardriving through the streets to find a persons computer and hack it. Failing that, police can send a malicious e-mail containing something like a keylogger and record things like e-mails and instant messages. Combined with EU legislation, anything found can be sent to other countries in Europe.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).