Germans want access to home computers
Posted by Pajagre on Apr 5th, 2007
Berlin (dpa) - German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has confirmed plans to seek a change to the constitution to allow the state secret access to the computers of private individuals, in an interview published Thursday.
“Under certain conditions it must be possible for the Federal Criminal Police Office to search computers in secret,” Schaeuble told the Handelsblatt newspaper. Schaeuble’s attempts to gain greater powers for police and other state authorities, including storing the fingerprints of all Germans, have run into opposition within the ruling broad-based coalition. >>more