BBC
September 14, 2008
[efoods]The Home Office has signed up to an EU strategy against cybercrime that “encourages” police across Europe to remotely access personal computers.
The plan has sparked fears that the government is looking to increase police powers to hack into people’s computers without a court warrant.
UK police already do a “small number” of such operations under existing law.
However, the Home Office stated that the EU agreement will not affect police behaviour.
The plan, drawn up by the Council of the European Union, makes broad statements on how to improve European cyber crime-fighting, including inviting countries to introduce remote searches if they are already provided for under national law.
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