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Police told off for hacking
Germany's Federal Court of Justice said that there was no legal framework that allowed for secret police hacking. They said that searching computer and Internet data on a suspect's computer without their knowledge cannot be compared to existing methods of police investigation.
The court believed that home searches differed from computer searches because they were always conducted in the presence of the suspect, or at least a witness. They added that telephone taps could also not be compared with computer hacking, because previously saved data files are different from live telecommunication.
The ruling has put German police on the back-foot because it now means that they cannot conduct secret searches of computer hard drives and Internet records as part of their investigations.
The German news agency dpa says that Germany's Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble will now press for changes to the legal framework of the criminal investigation procedure to allow police to hack as part of their normal inquiry process.
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