Great Britain broadens online search abilities - and opens up the door to law enforcement agencies from other EU states

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

The Home Office in Great Britain adapted a plan which allows “police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant” according to the Times Online. This kind of remote search allows both police and MI5 officers to examine suspects’ hard drives, to install keylogging software or ...

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Sweden’s New Surveillance Law

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Sweden has recently been in the international news for issues related to government surveillance versus privacy. Last week, a controversial law was passed enabling the FRA (translated into English as the National Defense Radio Establishment) to collect any and all traffic crossing the Swedish borders. Earlier, only suspicion of crime would ...

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